Jizaburo Ozawa s character evaluation, Jizaburo Ozawa s anecdotal allusions

1. Like Narumi Inoue, who has a conscience, Ozawa did not take advantage of his connections in the Navy to start anew (it can be said that it is really convenient with his popularity), but lived an ordinary life at home.

2. The Japanese army and navy infighting in World War II is famous, but Ozawa has a good reputation and popularity in the army, and the Japanese army generals who participated in the southern war, when it comes to the Japanese naval generals, they think that the most powerful is not Yamamoto, nor Nagumo, but Ozawa, and they all give him a thumbs up.

Jisaburo Ozawa (Japanese: English: Jisaburo Ozawa, October 2, 1886 – September 9, 1966), a native of Miyazaki Prefecture, was Vice Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commander of the Japanese Navy's First Mobile Fleet, and commander of the fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the last commander of the Combined Fleet.

Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa was known for his calm composure and was the Japanese Navy's premier expert in air warfare. Vice Admiral Ozawa pioneered the aircraft carrier-centered task force attack fleet, and at this point, Admiral Yamamoto was deeply influenced by Vice Admiral Ozawa, thus creating the Japanese Combined Fleet, which had the most powerful aircraft carrier formation in the world at that time. Participated in the Battle of the Marianas and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Despite the practical experience and the acceptance of the idea of "aviation first" during his tenure as president of the Naval University. However, in the selection of the commander of the mobile force, the Military Command Department still chose Nagumo Tadaichi, which can be said to be a major puzzle that has plagued the Japanese historiography. Yamamoto's life with Mitsumasa Yonechi can be described as beautiful, but his conceited personality also makes his relationship with his peers very tense (objectively speaking, this tension is also related to Yamamoto's promotion of the aviation first theory, after all, this is not only a tactical problem, but also ruined many people's jobs).

His egotistical personality makes him not want his direct subordinates to be too good, and the strained relationship makes him afraid of being replaced by a great subordinate. Despite this, Ozawa's idea of an air fleet with aircraft carriers as the core was adopted by Yamamoto and realized at Pearl Harbor. This tactic has since been used by the U.S. Navy and has influenced it to this day.

In November 1909, he graduated from the Naval Academy.

December 1910 Second Lieutenant in the Navy.

December 1912 Crew member of the destroyer Kasumi, Lieutenant of the Navy December 1915 Crew member of the battleship Hanoi, captain of the Navy December 1917 Captain of the torpedo boat Seagull.

In November 1918, he went to the Mediterranean as the commander of the Japanese transport ship to participate in World War I, in December 1921, he was the captain of the destroyer Take, and in August 1924, he was the captain of the destroyer Shimakaze.

December 1926 Staff Officer of the Combined Fleet, Nakasa of the NavyDecember 1930 Commander of the First Destroyer Fleet, Commander of the Navy Osa, November 1934 Captain of the heavy cruiser Maya.

October 1935 Captain of the battleship Haruna, Rear Admiral February 1937 Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet.

November 1937 Commander of the 8th Fleet.

November 1938 Principal of the Torpedo School.

January 1939 Commander of the 1st Air Force.

November 1940 Commander of the 3rd Fleet, Vice Admiral September 1941 Rector of the Naval University.

November 1942 Commander of the 3rd Fleet.

March 1944 Commander of the 1st Mobile Fleet.

June 1944 Commander of the Battle of the Marianas Commander of the Mobile Fleet November 1944 Commander of the Battle of Leyte Gulf Commander of the Mobile Fleet May 1945 Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and Commander of the Combined Fleet Retired in October 1945.

As the saying goes, the times create heroes, and no matter whether heroes are treacherous or evil, they have their own network of times, and Masaki Shizaburo was born in the era of Meiji Restoration and bushido fanaticism, forming his unique worldview, the core of which is loyalty to the emperor and the belief in this loyalty as an army, and the disarmament activities of the Taisho era have led to widespread dissatisfaction in the army, and with the death of the senator who is binding on the army, the army will inevitably obtain political rights through extraordinary means to ensure its own interests. In the face of the global economic crisis that began in 1929, when all political parties were unable to sustain themselves, Masaki, who believed in the supremacy of the emperor and tried to transform the country with the military, became the darling of the times and was pushed to the forefront of political struggle. Masaki is a careerist with a strong desire for power, but he is also a soldier who is purely loyal to the monarch, who does things purely by one conviction, is too conceited, lacks a complete political concept and sufficient experience in political struggle, so he loses the struggle against the ruling faction who really has the skills of political struggle.

Although he did not become the head of the Japanese military and always verbally disapproved of violent revolution, he cultivated a group of fanatical militarists by word and deed, which had an extremely bad impact. And his unlimited and deliberate connivance with young officers directly led to the February 26 incident. He also worked hard to support Araki's policy of foreign aggression and completed the concoction of the puppet state of Manchukuo.

For all of the above, he cannot escape the blame. Although he was not justly judged after the war, he was bound to accept the criticism of history.