Background
Fujimoto Кіkuo was born in 1887.
Fujimoto Кіkuo was born in 1887.
He joined the navy after graduating from the Engineering School, Tokyo University (1911). Studied for three years at the Naval College, Greenwich, England before he was attached to the Bureau of Naval Construction.
He designed practically all Japanese cruisers of the Aoba class and 8,000-ton cruisers of the Mogami class.