Hitoshi Imamura
At 2300 on 28 February 1942, "Mikuma" and "Mogami", destroyer , light cruiser and destroyers , , , and arrived and engaged the cruisers and with gunfire and torpedoes after the Allied vessels attacked Japanese transports in the Sunda Strait. At 2355, "Houston" scored hits on "Mikuma" that knocked out her electrical power, but it was quickly restored. During the battle, "Mikuma" lost six men and eleven others were wounded. Both "Houston" and "Perth" were sunk during the engagement, as was transport "Ryujo Maru" with IJA 16th Army commander Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura—although the general survived the sinking.