Ships
- IJN Kitakami Captain from 29 August 1944, as additional duty · Relieved on 1 December 1944
Masamoto Shimizu was a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy who commanded the light cruiser Kitakami from 29 August 1944 to 1 December 1944.
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 43th class, and before this command he had been chief of the port office of the Sasebo Navy Yard.
He was given command of Kitakami on 29 August 1944 as additional duty, while keeping his post at the Sasebo yard. The ship was in the yard being rebuilt as a kaiten carrier through the whole of his time, and he handed her to a full-time captain on 1 December 1944.
What became of him after this command is not recorded in the sources used here.