Uraga Dock Company
"Yayoi" was laid down by the Uraga Dock Company at its shipyard in Uraga on 11 January 1924, launched on 11 July 1925 and completed on 28 August 1926. Originally commissioned simply as "Destroyer No. 23", the vessel was assigned the name "Yayoi" on 1 August 1928. In the late 1930s, "Yayoi" participated in combat during the Second Sino-Japanese War and later in the Invasion of French Indochina in 1940.