Initial Command Structure:
Ship's Captain: Lieutenant Commander Takatsuka Minoru. Assigned to Desdiv 29, Desron 6, Fourth Fleet.

29 November-3 December 1941:
Steamed with Desron 6 from Truk to Kwajalein.

8-11 December:
Departed Kwajalein, then with first Wake Island invasion force. Sunk: by U.S. coastal batteries, two miles southwest of Wake Island (19-16 N, 166-37 E). Blew up and sank with entire crew. (One source lists a single survivor.) First Japanese destroyer sunk in the Pacific War.

15 January 1942:
Removed from Navy List.