Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 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 ya tsunduma cikin rufe saukar sojojin Japan a cikin
mamayewa na Birtaniya Malaya a lokacin da harin a kan Pearl Harbor.