Nojima Maru was a transport of the Imperial Japanese Navy, typed as an AP. Koichi Itagaki was her captain from 20 September 1941. She served as a transport in the Bismarck Sea convoy.
She is carried in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 2 March 1943, and the result entered for her is that she was sunk.
Allied aircraft sank her with bombs. The fate is dated 2–3 March 1943, and a strike on 3 March 1943 records an unknown attacker bombing Nojima Maru and sending her down. The sinking is not credited to one plane. She was lost in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.