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was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. His name was sometimes misspelled as “Marasmi Kobayashi” or “Marashi Kobayashi” by contemporary United States Navy sources. He was an outspoken proponent of the Treaty Faction within the Imperial Japanese Navy. ==Biography== Kobayashi was a native of Yonezawa, Yamagata, where his father was a farmer. With the assistance of a clique of admirals within the Imperial Japanese Navy from former Yonezawa Domain (including Yamashita Gentarō and Chūichi Nagumo), he entered military preparatory schools and graduated 4th out of 149 cadets from the 38th class of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy. His classmates included Michitaro Totsuka, Takeo Kurita, Rokuzō Sugiyama, Gunichi Mikawa and Aritomo Gotō. After serving on the cruiser and battleship , Kobayashi was sent to the United Kingdom as part of the crew bringing the new battlecruiser to Japan. After attending the naval artillery and torpedo warfare schools, he served on the destroyer before attending the Naval Staff College in 1916, where he specialized in navigation. On graduation and promotion to lieutenant, Kobayashi served as chief navigator on the survey vessel and the aging cruiser . He then returned to shore duty from 1919-1921 with the IJN 3rd Fleet and served as an instructor at the Navy Academy. He returned again to the Naval War College in 1921, and was promoted to lieutenant commander on graduation in 1922. His first command was from 1923-1925 of the river gunboat , which operated on the Yangtze River in Shanghai. From December 1925 to April 1928, Kobayashi served as a naval attaché to the United States. He was promoted to commander on 1 December 1927. After his return to Japan, Kobayashi served as executive officer on the submarine tender . He was promoted to captain on December 1, 1931. A week later, he was sent to Geneva as an attendant to the Geneva Conference. In November 1932, he returned to the United States as a naval attaché, remaining until June 1934. In December 1936, Kobayashi was appointed captain of the battleship . With the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kobayashi became Chief of Staff of the IJN 4th Fleet and was based at Tsingtao as assistant to Rear Admiral Soemu Toyoda. On 1 December 1937, Kobayashi was promoted to rear admiral. From September 1938 to November 1939, he served as Chief of Staff of the Sasebo Naval District. He returned to the China front in November 1939 as Commander of the Naval Base Forces in Wuhan, and from November 1940 in Shanghai. He returned to Japan in May 1941. On 15 October 1941, Kobayashi was promoted to vice admiral. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Masami Kobayashi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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