Ships
- IJN Kashima Captain from 1 September 1941 · Relieved on 7 September 1942
Kinji Senda was a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy who commanded the training cruiser Kashima from 1 September 1941 to 7 September 1942.
The sources used here do not record his date or place of birth or anything about his family.
He graduated from the Naval Academy at Etajima in its 45th class, and before this command he had been captain of the transport Shuri Maru.
He took command on 1 September 1941, and from 1 December Kashima was flagship of Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue's Fourth Fleet at Truk. She covered the landings at Rabaul and Kavieng in January 1942, and in May she lay at Rabaul while Inoue directed the Port Moresby operation and the Battle of the Coral Sea from her. She was refitted at Kure in August. He was relieved on 7 September 1942.
He was later promoted rear admiral.