Southwest Area Fleet
Ordered in 1917 to the Sasebo Navy Yard, launched 14 July 1919, and completed 31 August 1920, "Kuma" was active in screening the landings of Japanese troops in the Philippines in the early months of World War II, and remained stationed there for local defense. Later assigned to the Southwest Area Fleet in the Netherlands East Indies, she was refit at Singapore from October–November 1943. She was torpedoed by the submarine off the west coast of Malaya on 10 March 1944.