Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 20 o Noema 1941, ko "Kinu" te rangatira o te SubRon 4 a Rear Admiral Setsuzo Yoshitomi, i Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, me te SubDiv 18's,, me te, me te SubDiv 19's "I-56",, and. I noho ia ki Hainan, ā, i whai wāhi ia ki te hipoki i ngā rerenga o ngā ope Hapanihi i te
te whakaekenga o Malaya o Ingarangi i te wā o te whakaekenga ki Pearl Harbor.