Early Life
A native of Kagawa Prefecture and of samurai descent, Hara graduated with the 49th class from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima in 1921. In 1932 Hara was assigned as a surface warfare instructor and in the middle of the same year his naval doctrine was accepted. At the beginning of the war he was a captain of destroyer Amatsukaze, but for most of the war he was a destroyer squadron commander, aboard Shigure. Hara's conception was first used in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
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