Imperial Japanese Navy admiral
Vice Admiral ; 24 May 1891 – 3 September 1945) was an Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and the Inspector General of munitions, Kinki district, Tokyo, at the end of World War II.
Birth and career.
Matsuo Morizumi was born 24 May 1891 in the Kanagawa Prefecture.
Morizumi was a graduate of the 22nd Naval Engineer Academy class. He began service as a Midshipman/Engineering on 15 December 1913 aboard training cruiser "Tsugaru". On 18 July 1914 he was assigned to the Armored cruiser "Tsukuba", with promotion on 1 December to Engineer Sublieutenant (Ensign).
Morizumi next was assigned aboard "Kongō"-class battlecruiser "Haruna" on 12 February 1915, and thence to the not-yet commissioned "Fusō"-class battleship "Yamashiro" on 27 October 1916 with promotion to Lieutenant junior grade (engineer) on 1 December.
On 7 February 1917, Morizumi transferred to the "Ume", one of the ten "Kaba"-class destroyers hastily (but well) built by seven Japanese yards to fulfill Japan's allied commitments in the Great War. On 20 February 1918, he was assigned as Assistant Staff Officer of the 2nd Special Task Fleet, a task force of Japanese destroyers deployed to Malta in the Mediterranean as part of Japan's assistance to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
Morizumi served as commanding officer of Maizuru Naval Arsenal in Kyoto Prefecture, from 10 March 1944 to 1 May 1945.
When the war ended, Morizumi was the Osaka naval defense district superintendent of shipbuilding and ordnance.
Death.
He committed seppuku, ritual suicide, in his office in Tokyo on the night of 3 September 1945, the day after Japan's unconditional surrender to Allied forces.
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