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Kiyozo Oda
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Kiyozo Oda was a sailor. Inventor of the Oda-style mine. He was responsible for the sinking of the Russian flagship Petropavlovsk by means of a mine at the mouth of Port Arthur harbor in which Commander Stefan Ossipovitch Makarov of the Russian Far Eastern Fleet and 600 Russian sailors were drowned.
Education
Kiyozo Oda graduated from the Naval Academy, and Nagasaki Torpedo School.
Career
In the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), he was a commander of the Combined Fleet's Mine-Laying Squadron. After the war, he was director of the Naval Arsenal's Mine Section. Was promoted to rear admiral.
