The name means morning mist. Asagiri was a Fubuki-class destroyer built at Sasebo. She was laid down on 12 December 1928, launched on 18 November 1929 and commissioned on 30 June 1930. After the typhoon that damaged the Fourth Fleet in 1935 she was rebuilt with a stronger hull. In the late 1930s she covered landings at Shanghai and Hangzhou and patrolled the south China coast.
At Pearl Harbor she was in Destroyer Division 20 at Samah on Hainan, escorting troop ships for the invasion of Malaya. On 27 January 1942 she and her convoy were attacked by HMS Thanet and HMAS Vampire in the Battle off Endau, and her torpedoes are credited with helping sink Thanet. She then escorted heavy cruisers for the invasion of Banka and Palembang. In the Indian Ocean raid, with the cruisers Chokai and Yura and the carrier Ryujo, she is credited with six merchant ships.
At Midway she was part of the diversionary Aleutian invasion force. She reached Truk in late August 1942. On 28 August she was carrying troops toward Guadalcanal when a bomb from a Marine SBD from Henderson Field hit her. The explosion killed 122 men, including 60 of the ground troops, and she sank 60 nautical miles north-northeast of Savo Island. She was struck from the Navy List on 1 October 1942.
Sources: Allyn Nevitt's combinedfleet.com Tabular Record of Movement for IJN Asagiri; Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Asagiri, rewritten here.