Zengo Yoshida

Zengo Yoshida (吉田 善吾, Yoshida Zengo, 14 February 1885 – 14 November 1966) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Biography
Yoshida was born into an impoverished farming family in Saga prefecture in 1885, and was adopted into the family of a local rice merchant. He was a graduate of the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904, ranking 12th out of 190 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the submarine tender Karasaki, and the cruiser Kasuga. He was commissioned as an ensign too late for active service in the Russo-Japanese War.
Yoshida attended naval artillery and torpedo school from 1906–1907, and was then assigned to the destroyer Asatsuyu followed by the cruiser Hashidate.
As a lieutenant from 1909, he specialized in torpedo warfare, and graduated from the Naval Staff College in 1913. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1915, and commander in 1919, serving in a variety of...