Ships
- IJN Shiranui Captain from 15 September 1943
Commander Hinoe Tomoshige was an officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. On 15 September 1943 he was appointed captain of the destroyer Shiranui, a concurrent command held in the rank of commander.
Shiranui was a Kagerō-class destroyer completed at Uraga in December 1939. Under Shizuo Akazawa, who commanded her from October 1940 until September 1942, she served in Destroyer Division 18 and screened the carrier striking force in the first months of the Pacific War, including the attack on Pearl Harbor. On 5 July 1942, off Kiska in the Aleutians, a torpedo from the submarine Growler tore away her bow and killed three of her men. Her crew kept her afloat, and she was brought back to the Maizuru Navy Yard for a reconstruction that lasted until 15 November 1943. During that refit her aftermost main-battery turret was removed and further 25-millimeter antiaircraft guns were fitted in its place.
After Akazawa left, the damaged ship was passed along in short concurrent captaincies while she lay at Maizuru. Koshichi Sugioka held her first, then Hiroo Yamana, and then Toyoji Hitomi from 20 May 1943. Hitomi's orders ended on 10 September, and the post stood empty until Tomoshige was named captain on 15 September 1943, again concurrently. He remained until 5 October 1943, when Masatoshi Yasumane relieved him under the same kind of appointment. On 15 October Shiranui was rated a first-reserve destroyer and assigned to the Maizuru Naval District, her reconstruction still unfinished.
Teisaburo Ara became captain on 1 November 1943. The yard completed the ship on 15 November, and she joined the Ninth Fleet, escorting convoys toward Palau, Wewak, and Hollandia in January and February 1944. From 1 March she served with the Fifth Fleet in northern waters, patrolling from the Ominato Guard District, and early in August she returned to Kure in company with the cruisers Nachi and Ashigara. She took part in the Leyte Gulf operations that October. On the morning of 27 October, off Semirara Island in the Philippines, American carrier aircraft struck her. She exploded and sank with her entire company, Ara among them.