Official number 29132 and call sign JABB. Gross tonnage tons, under deck tons, net tonnage tons and as dimensions 315.5 x 46.0 x 27.0 feet. Laid down by Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha Ltd., Kobe, Japan for Nippon Yusen K.K., Tokyo, Japan on 3 July 1922, launched on 5 February 1923, completed on 15 March 1923, requisitioned as troop transport by the army as IJA No. 210 on 19 September 1941 and sunk while used as an Army cargo ship in an American air attack north west off Takao bound for Formosa on 5 October 1944. Also used by the army in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937-1938.

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