Kasumi was an Asashio-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. On 7 December 1941 she screened the carriers of the Pearl Harbor striking force. She was not hit.
In the Aleutian Islands, Growler torpedoed her outside Kiska on 5 July 1942. The hit damaged her, and she was repaired. Arare was the destroyer Growler sank that day. On 25 October 1944 she was in Shima's force at the Battle of Surigao Strait. She came out. Lieutenant Commander Shohei Matsumoto became her captain on 1 March 1945.
She was committed to Okinawa and, on 7 April 1945, sailed with the Yamato force in Operation Ten-Go. Two bombs and a near miss took her steering and disabled her. Seventeen men were killed and forty-seven injured. Fuyutsuki took the survivors off, Matsumoto among them, and scuttled her with two torpedoes. The loss is not credited to one carrier.