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was a Japanese Marshal Admiral and commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet. ==Biography== Koga was born in the famous ceramics center of Arita in Nishimatsuura County of Saga Prefecture in 1885. He entered the 34th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and graduated in 1906, ranked 14th of 176 cadets. He served as midshipman on the cruiser on its long distance navigational training cruise to Honolulu, Hilo, Wellington, Brisbane, Palm Island, Queensland, Batavia, Singapore, Mako, Tsingtao, Port Arthur, Dairen, Chemulpo, Chinkai, Busan and Kagoshima. On his return, he was commissioned as ensign and assigned to the , followed by and . As a sub-lieutenant he served on the and , and as lieutenant from 1911, he served on . After further attendance at the Naval War College (Japan), Koga held shore staff posting following his graduation and promotion to lieutenant commander in 1917. In 1920, seeing no action during World War I, Koga became a resident officer in France. He returned in 1922 to become executive officer on the . On his promotion to captain on December 1, 1926, Koga was again posted to France, where he served as a naval attaché in Paris until November 1, 1928. Recalled to Japan in 1930 and being given command of the Yokosuka Naval Station, Koga captained the heavy cruiser from December 31, 1930, and the battleship from December 31, 1931, until his appointment to rear admiral on December 31, 1932 and transfer to be Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff's Intelligence Division in 1933. Koga became Vice Chief of the Navy General Staff and promoted to vice admiral on December 31, 1936 shortly before the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Commander of the IJN 2nd Fleet in 1939, Koga was placed in command of the China Area Fleet on September 1, 1941. Koga shared Yamamoto's misgivings about war with the United States, but disagreed with Yamamoto regarding the use of naval aviation, remaining a firm battleship advocate until events later in the Pacific War proved his position outdated. 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「Mineichi Koga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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