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182: 25: 202: 227: 121: 856:. The ~60 civilians, mostly German missionaries, their servants and dependents (including 3 infants), were then massacred on board the destroyer under orders that came from 8th Fleet HQ. As commander of the 8th Fleet at the time, Mikawa and his chief of staff Vice Admiral Shinzō Ōnishi are implicated in the war crime. At 8th Fleet HQ a Lieutenant Shigetoku Kami debriefed the captain of 874:, if it did not bear the countersignatures of Mikawa and Ōnishi. In addition, the more junior officers involved in the massacre died during the war and could not corroborate their claims. In the opinion of Captain Albert Klestadt, a member of the investigation, even if the admirals did not issue the orders themselves, they had to accept 810:. Admiral Mikawa also stated to the High Command of the IJN that fighting the Americans for the Solomon Islands was simply pouring Japanese soldiers, sailors, airmen, and ships into a "black hole". Mikawa was correct about this, but his superiors in the IJN and the generals of the Japanese Army refused to listen to him. 731:
However, Mikawa was somewhat criticized by his superiors for his failure to aggressively follow up on his victory. He could have pursued to the south and attacked the fleet of unarmed American cargo transports that were at anchor, waiting until daybreak when they could continue delivering ammunition
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after the massacre, he was the only staff officer whose name appeared in the testimony of Japanese witnesses. Mikawa and Ōnishi were interrogated after the war as the Australian War Crimes Section realized that the order to murder over 60 civilians could not have been given by a single low-ranking
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Both admirals said that it was Kami, perhaps aided by another staff officer who was in charge of civilian affairs, who ordered the massacre independently. They also claimed that they were not aware of the massacre until after the fact. However, historian
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writes that their claims are dubious when contrasted with wartime navy procedures in force when issuing orders. It was unlikely that communication officers of the 8th Fleet would agree to encrypt and deliver Kami's order to the commander of
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on their voyage back to Rabaul. However, after the war Mikawa maintained that based on the information available to him at the time, he did not believe he had made an incorrect decision in withdrawing from Savo Island.
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Mikawa had Naval General Staff and other shore posts in Japan from April to September 1943. From 3 September 1943 to 18 June 1944, Mikawa commanded the
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from 1937 to 1939, then went to sea again to command a succession of fleet squadrons, first in cruisers and then in battleships. He was promoted to
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evacuated civilians from the Roman Catholic mission headquarters on Kairiru Island and also a group of missionaries from
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After the war, Admiral Mikawa lived a long and rather quiet life in Japan, dying in 1981 at the age of 92.
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On the night of 13 to 14 November 1942, Mikawa led a cruiser force that bombarded the critical American
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During the 1920s, Mikawa served as chief navigator on a number of ships, including the battleship
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to air attacks originating there. Throughout the campaign for Guadalcanal, Rear Admiral
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in late 1930, he returned to Japan to take up administrative and training duties.
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in October 1944, Mikawa retired from active duty with the IJN in May 1945.
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Mikawa was soon forced to take responsibility for the loss of most of the
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From 1 December 1936 – 15 November 1937, he was chief of staff of the
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From 14 July 1942 to 1 April 1943, Mikawa commanded the newly formed
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for being unable to prevent war crimes committed by subordinates.
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Mikawa was attached to the Japanese delegation to the post-war
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in 1910, ranked third of his class of 149 cadets. After
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