Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 20 ga Nuwamba 1941, "Kinu" ya kasance babban jirgin ruwa na Rear Admiral Setsuzo Yoshitomi's SubRon 4, wanda ke zaune a Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, tare da SubDiv 18's,, da, da SubDiv 19's "I-56",, da. An kafa shi ne a Hainan kuma an yi aiki a kan saukar da sojojin Japan a cikin mamayewa na Birtaniya Malaya.
a lokacin harin da aka kai kan Pearl Harbor.