Mochitsura Hashimoto (橋本 以行, Hashimoto Mochitsura, 1909 – 25 October 2000) was an officer and a submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He is best known as the captain of Japanese submarine I-58, which sank the USS Indianapolis in 1945.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.