Battle of Sunda Strait
In early 1942, "Harukaze" was assigned to escorting troop convoys from Taiwan to Malaya and French Indochina. Assigned to Operation J (the invasion of Java in the Netherlands East Indies), she participated at the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942. During that battle, the ship assisted the destroyer in sinking the Dutch auxiliary minesweeper "Endeh"