 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Hakuhō Maru yakarayirwa neJapan Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 農林省. Yakagadzwa musi waOctober 15, 1921 paHikoshima Shipyard yeMitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. 三造船株式會社彦島造, yakapedzwa musi waFebruary 16, 1922 uye yakatangwa musi waMarch 29, 1922. Chainyanya kushanda sechikepe chaidzora hove muGungwa reOkhotsk, Zvitsuwa zveKurile, Gungwa reBering, uye North Pacific. On 2 November 1941, iye requisitioned ne Imperial Japanese Navy uye akapiwa Fifth Fleet Northern Area Force sechikamu 13th Minesweeper Division pasi Captain Toshio Mitsuka pamwe Kaihō Maru uye Shunkotsu Maru. Chikwata ichi chaiva chikamu cheuto reKiska raitungamirirwa naKaputeni Takeji Ono panguva yekurwisa Aleutian Islands. Musi wa14 Chikunguru 1945, apo aifamba achitenderera kubva kuKushiro kuenda kuHakodate, akarwiswa nendege gumi uye akarohwa zvakananga ka6. Yakakuvadzwa zvikuru, yakaiswa pasi ndokusiyiwa. 