Facts: - battles: second sino-japanese war world war ii - death date: 25 october 2000 -lrb- aged 91 -rrb- - allegiance: empire of japan - commands: '' '' i-58 '' ro-31 '' '' i-158 '' '' ro-44 '' - rank: commander - awards: order of the rising sun , 5th class order of the of sacred treasure the golden kite , 5th class order - birth date: 1909 - serviceyears: 1931 -- 1945 - name: hashimoto mochitsura - branch: empire of japan - laterwork: shinto priest - image: mochitsura hashimoto.jpg - death place: kyoto , japan - birth place: kyoto , japan Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mochitsura hashimoto .
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born in kyoto and educated at the imperial japanese naval academy , hashimoto volunteered for service in submarines and was later aboard submarine '' i-24 '' during the attack on pearl harbor in 1941 .hashimoto commanded coastal patrol and training submarines off japan for much of the war , and in 1944 took command of '' i-58 '' , a ship which was equipped to carry '' kaiten '' , or manned torpedoes .after a number of unsuccessful operations , '' i-58 '' sank the '' indianapolis '' on 30 july while on a midnight patrol .hashimoto 's submarine then returned to japan , one of the few such ships to survive the war .hashimoto was then called to testify at the court-martial of charles b. mcvay iii , the '' indianapolis '' commander , a move which was controversial at the time .he was later part of an effort to exonerate mcvay .hashimoto later became a shinto priest .he died in 2000 .