The Momo-class destroyers were designed as part of the first phase of the Hachi-Hachi Kantai program of the Imperial Japanese Navy, at the same time as the large Isokaze class.

The Momo-class destroyers were completed in time to serve in the very final stages of World War I.

[4] However, on 6 June 1942, Hai Wei was transferred back to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and reclassified as the auxiliary escort Kari.

The ship fought in World War II, and was sunk by United States Navy aircraft from TF38 off of Okinawa on 10 October 1944.

To test his radically aggressive head-on "down the throat" attack plan, he first engages one of the smaller "Momo"-class destroyers.