Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A lokacin da aka kai hari kan Pearl Harbor, "Kamikaze" har yanzu yana da tushe a Ōminato, kuma an sanya shi a cikin sintiri daga Tsibirin Chishima zuwa gabar kudancin Hokkaidō. A watan Yunin 1942, "Kamikaze" ya taimaka wajen ba da kariya ga sojojin Japan a lokacin
Operation AL, mamayewa na mamayewa na tsibirin Aleutian a lokacin yakin Midway. Bayan Kamfen na Tsibirin Aleutian, "Kamikaze" ya yi sintiri daga Hokkaidō ta hanyar Aleutians har zuwa ƙarshen shekara. A cikin 1943 da 1944, an ba shi aikin yin sintiri na Soya Strait da Tsugaru Strait da kuma rakiyar jiragen ruwa zuwa wuraren da ke cikin tsibirin Kurile.