Ships
- IJN Kinu Captain from 11 August 1941 · Relieved on 12 December 1942
Yoshiro Kato was a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy who commanded the light cruiser Kinu from 11 August 1941 to 12 December 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 43th class, and before this command he had been commander of Submarine Division 18.
He took command on 11 August 1941. When the war began Kinu was flagship of Submarine Squadron 4 off Poulo Condore, covering the Malaya landings. Under him she covered the landings in British Borneo, escorted convoys toward Java, where near misses from Vildebeest biplanes killed three of her men on 1 March 1942, and sailed with the force that occupied Dutch New Guinea. For the rest of 1942 she worked in the Netherlands East Indies and carried troops to Rabaul. He was relieved on 12 December 1942.
He was promoted rear admiral after his death. The date and place of his death are not recorded in the sources used here.