Ships
- IJN Ioshima Commanding officer from 23 June 1944 (Lieutenant Commander, reserve) · Killed when she was sunk, 19 September 1944
Akiji Fukuchi was a lieutenant commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy who commanded the escort ship and former Chinese cruiser Ioshima from 23 June 1944 to 19 September 1944. He was killed when she was sunk.
The sources used here do not record his date or place of birth or anything about his family.
He was an officer of the naval reserve. His training and earlier service are not recorded in the sources used here.
He was a lieutenant commander of the naval reserve. On 23 June 1944 he took command of Ioshima, the former Chinese cruiser Ning Hai, newly rebuilt as an escort ship. In July he took a convoy from Yokosuka to Iwo Jima and back, and on 26 July she avoided a torpedo from an unknown submarine. On 19 September 1944, escorting another convoy from Yokosuka, she was hit by three torpedoes from USS Shad about 85 miles from Hachijojima and sank. He was killed.
What became of him after this command is not recorded in the sources used here.