Rear Admiral Shin Arakawa/荒川信 海軍少将

His awards

Medal Bar and Orders of Rear Admiral Shin Arakawa

https://asiamedals.info/threads/rear-admiral-shin-arakawa.23146/ Photos of Shin Arakawa awards were taken from Guy Power and Nyle Monday article Awards to a Japanese Admiral: The Orders and Medals of Rear Admiral Shin Arakawa, OMSA Journal, Volume 62, Number 3, May - June 2011.

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Rear Amiral Arakawa, Shin

1890. 2.12 born
1912. 7.17 P/MID Pay.Academy B-Course
1912.12.14 Crew, Kashima
1913.12. 1 P/SUBLT
1914. 3.20 Crew, Suwo
1914. 8.14 Crew, Ikoma
1915. 6.30 Crew, Haruna
1915.12.13 P/LTJG
1916. 4. 1 Member, Mako GD / Member, 13dg
1917. 6. 1 Chief Pay, 14dg (acting)
1917.12. 1 P/LT Member, 14dg
1918. 1.31 Staff, Supply Storage, Maizuru NYd
1919. 9.23 LT/P
1920. 1.30 Chief Pay, Mishima / DC, Mishima
1920. 7. 6 Assist Staff, 3F
1920. 7.23 Member, Interim bg
1920.10. 2 Staff, B-Act, Yokosuka
1921. 8.10 Staff, Factory Storage, B-Act, Ord.Arsnl
1922. 5. 1 Crew, Izumo
1923. 3. 1 Member, Sasebo ND
1923. 5.10 Inst, Pay.Academy / Trainer, Pay.Academy
1923.12. 1 LCDR/P Pay.Academy Adv.Course
1924.12. 1 Staff, Factory Storage, B-Act, Sasebo NYd / Staff, B-Shipbuild, Sasebo NYd / Staff, B-Act, Sasebo NYd
1927. 2. 1 Chief Pay, Iwate / DC, Iwate
1928. 1.15 Member, Yokosuka ND
1928. 3.15 Staff, B-Act, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, B-Shipbuild, Yokosuka NYd
1928. 6.25 Member, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, B-Act, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, B-Shipbuild, Yokosuka NYd
1928.12.10 CMDR/P
1929. 6.12 Member, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, B-Act, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, B-Shipbuild, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, Material Storage, B-Act, Yokosuka NYd
1929. 7.20 Member, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, B-Act, Yokosuka NYd / Staff, B-Shipbuild, Yokosuka NYd
1929.11. 1 Staff, Material Storage, B-Act, Yokosuka NYd
1930. 3.10 ASVCO, NSC (Trip to UK)
1931.12.20 Trip to Fr
1932. 3. 1 Order of Return
1932. 7.15 Chief, S2, B-Act, Yokosuka
1932.11.15 Att, NAC (B-Adm)
1932.12. 1 Staff, B-Adm, NAC / Staff, NSC
1933. 4. 1 Chief, S2, B-Adm, NAC
1933.11.15 CAPT/P
1935.11.15 Chief, B-Act, Sasebo NYd
1936.12. 1 Chief Inst, Pay.Academy
1937.12. 1 Member, Yokosuka ND
1937.12.15 Chief Pay, GF / Chief Pay, 1F
1938.11.15 Chief, B-Act, Air Arsnl
1939. 4. 1 Chief, B-Act, Air-Tech Arsnl
1939.11.15 RADM/P
1941. 4. 1 Chief, B-Act, Air-Tech Arsnl / Chief, B-Act, Branch, Air-Tech Arsnl
1941. 7.10 Att, Yokosuka ND / Att, Air-Tech Arsnl
1941.10. 1 Dir, 1st Air Arsnl
1942.12. 1 Dir, 21st Air Arsnl
1943. 7. 1 Att, NGS
1943. 9. 6 Wait
1943. 9.10 Resv
1977. 5.11 died (87)

Photos were taken from Guy Power and Nyle Monday article Awards to a Japanese Admiral: The Orders and Medals of Rear Admiral Shin Arakawa, OMSA Journal, Volume 62, Number 3, May - June 2011.

1943

 

Captain Arakawa, mid-1930s.

 

Commander Arakawa in London, 1930 (during London Naval Treaty Talks).

 

Lieutenant Arakawa, circa 1923.

 

Lieutenant Arakawa and his wife, circa 1923.

 

Midshipman Arakawa, 1912.