The name means leaf wind. Hakaze was a Minekaze-class destroyer built by Mitsubishi at Nagasaki. She was laid down on 11 November 1918, launched on 21 June 1920 and completed on 16 September 1920. From 1937 to 1938 she patrolled the north and central China coast.
At Pearl Harbor she was in Destroyer Division 34 of the 11th Air Fleet, based at Cape St. Jacques south of Saigon, carrying material to Miri, Kuching and Kota Bharu for forward airfields. In February 1942 she supported the invasion of Palembang and made anti-submarine patrols from Bangka. She moved to Bangkok in March and Singapore in April. In May she was at Rabaul, supporting the attempted invasion of Port Moresby.
After repairs at Maizuru she escorted convoys to Saipan and Rabaul, and from August she patrolled out of Rabaul. In October she escorted convoys in preparation for the Guadalcanal offensive, and in November she ran high-speed transport missions from Buin to Munda. From late November 1942 to 20 January 1943 she patrolled and escorted in the Shortlands, Buka, Rabaul and Kavieng area. On 23 January 1943, escorting the seaplane tender Akitsushima, she attacked USS Guardfish and was torpedoed and sunk about 15 miles south of Kavieng. She was struck from the Navy List on 1 March 1943.
Sources: Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Hakaze, rewritten here.