The name is Mount Myoko, in Niigata. Myoko was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers. Yokosuka laid her down on 25 October 1924, launched her on 16 April 1927, and commissioned her on 31 July 1929. Nachi, Ashigara, and Haguro were the other three.
At the Coral Sea, in May 1942, Vice Admiral Takeo Takagi flew his flag in her with the carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku. Haguro screened those carriers with her. Myoko was not sunk.
On the night of 1–2 November 1943 Rear Admiral Sentaro Omori's flag was in her off Empress Augusta Bay. Haguro was with her. Captain Katsuhei Nakamura had the ship. In the dark she collided with the destroyer Hatsukaze and cut off Hatsukaze's bow. American destroyers then finished Hatsukaze. Claxton, Spence, Stanly, and Thatcher were in that fire. It is not credited to one of them, and it is not credited to Myoko. She was lightly damaged. She was not sunk. The American cruisers sank Sendai. That fire is not credited to one ship.
On 25 October 1944 she was in the cruiser line off Samar. She was not sunk that day. The American ships lost that morning are not credited to her alone.
She was still afloat, and immobile, at Singapore when Japan surrendered. She was scuttled in the Malacca Strait on 8 July 1946.