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Koma, Masayoshi

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Masayoshi Koma was a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy who commanded the training cruiser Kashima from 15 May 1944 to 13 August 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 49th class, and before this command he had been chief of the second section of the Navy Ministry's Education Bureau.

He took command at Kure on 15 May 1944. Between May and July Kashima made four runs from Shimonoseki to Okinawa with Army reinforcements and supplies, and in July she carried Second Air Fleet men to Formosa. He was relieved on 13 August 1944.

What became of him after this command is not recorded in the sources used here.