Ships
- IJN Kuma Captain from 14 August 1943 · In command when she was sunk, 11 January 1944; survived
Shuichi Sugino was a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy who commanded the light cruiser Kuma from 14 August 1943 to 11 January 1944. He survived her sinking.
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 46th class, and before this command he had been commander of Destroyer Division 11.
He took command on 14 August 1943 at Singapore. Under him she ran troops from Belawan and Singapore to Port Blair in the Andamans, was refitted with more antiaircraft guns, and trained at Lingga. On 11 January 1944, seventeen miles west of Penang, she was steaming at 24 knots to serve as a target for torpedo bombers when HMS Tally-Ho fired seven torpedoes at her. He put the rudder hard to port, but two torpedoes hit her starboard side aft. Her own depth charges went off and she sank at 1157. The destroyer Uranami took him and the other survivors off; 138 men were lost.
In March 1944 he took command of the escort carrier Taiyo, and he survived her sinking in August 1944. In August 1945 he was given command of the battleship Nagato, one of the very few large Japanese ships still afloat.