Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 1 ga Fabrairun 1944, "Fusō" ya bar Truk tare da "Nagato" don kauce wa harin jirgin saman Amurka, kuma ya isa Palau a ranar 4 ga Fabrairu. Sun bar ranar 16 ga Fabrairu don tserewa wani harin iska. Jiragen sun isa ranar 21 ga Fabrairu a Tsibirin Lingga, kuma an yi amfani da "Fusō" a can a matsayin jirgin horo. Bayan mako guda, Kyaftin Masami Ban ya sauya Tsuruoka. An sake gyara jirgin a Singapore tsakanin 13 zuwa 27 ga Afrilu, kuma ya koma Lingga. An canja shi zuwa Tawi-Tawi a ranar 11 ga Mayu kuma ya ba da kariya ga rundunar da ta kasa karfafa tsibirin Biak.
a karshen watan. "Fusō" an tura shi zuwa tsibirin Tarakan daga Borneo don sake cikawa a farkon watan Yuli kafin ya koma Japan kuma ya tsere daga harin jirgin ruwa. A farkon watan Agusta a Kure, an sake sanya shi tare da ƙarin radars da kuma bindigogi na AA. "Fusō" da 'yar'uwarta jirgin ruwa an canza su zuwa Rukunin Jirgin Ruwa na 2 na Jirgin Ruwa na 2 a ranar 10 ga Satumba, kuma "Fusō" ya zama babban jirgin ruwa na rukunin karkashin jagorancin Mataimakin Admiral Shōji Nishimura a ranar 23 ga Satumba. Sun tashi daga Kure a ranar 23 ga Satumba zuwa Lingga, suna tserewa daga harin jirgin ruwa a rana mai zuwa, kuma sun isa ranar 4 ga Oktoba, inda Nishimura ya canza tutar sa zuwa "Yamashiro". Daga nan sai aka tura jiragen zuwa Brunei don yin man fetur a shirye-shiryen Operation "Shō-Gō", yunƙurin hallaka rundunar sojojin Amurka da ke mamaye Leyte.