Shinjiro Yamamoto

Shinjiro Yamamoto
Shinjiro Yamamoto
	Japanese Admiral Shinjiro Yamamoto
Native name	山本信次郎
Born	December 22, 1877; Katase, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Died	February 28, 1942 (aged 64); Tokyo, Japan
Buried	Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch	Imperial Japanese Navy
Rank	Admiral
Commands	IJN Mikasa
Conflicts	Boxer Rebellion Siege of Tianjin; ; Russo-Japanese War Siege of Port Arthur; Battle of Tsushima; ; World War I; World War II;
Awards	Order of the Golden Kite; Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class; Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd Class; Order of Leopold, 3rd Class; Knight of Order of St. Gregory the Great;
Alma mater	Imperial Japanese Naval Academy Naval War College
Spouse	Shiyoko Yoshimara (died 1929)

Shinjiro Yamamoto (山本信次郎) (22 December 1877 – 28 February 1942) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He is known for being one of the highest ranking Catholic officials in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces, and for his missionary work in the Japanese-controlled South Seas Mandate, now Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands. He was also made a Knight of Malta in 1936.