I te 20 o Whiringa-a-rangi 1941, ko te "Kinu" te rangatira o te SubRon 4 a Rear Admiral Setsuzo Yoshitomi, i te Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, me te SubDiv 18's,, me te, me te SubDiv 19's "I-56",, me. I noho ia ki Hainan, ā, i mahi ia ki te hipoki i te taenga mai o ngā ope Hapanihi i te whakaekenga o British Malaya.
i te wā o te whakaekenga ki Pearl Harbor.