The name means field wind. Nokaze was the lead ship of the Nokaze sub-class of the Minekaze class, built at Maizuru Naval Arsenal. She was laid down on 16 April 1921, launched on 1 October 1921 and commissioned on 31 March 1922 in Destroyer Division 1 with Namikaze, Numakaze and the flagship Kamikaze. The division patrolled the China coast in 1938 and 1939.
At Pearl Harbor she was at the Ominato Guard District, patrolling the Hokkaido and Kuril coasts. At Midway she was in the reserve force for the Aleutians operation, which never left Japanese waters. She patrolled and escorted from Ominato to July 1943, when she was lent to the Fifth Fleet for the Kiska evacuation, and then until January 1945.
In January 1945 she joined the Combined Fleet and left Moji on 26 January with convoy HI-91 for Singapore. She was ordered to Mako to join the screen of the battleships Ise and Hyuga for Operation Kita, but on 15 February she was ordered on to Singapore alone. On 20 February 1945 USS Pargo torpedoed her north of Nha Trang. She exploded and sank with 209 killed, and Kamikaze rescued 21 survivors, including her captain, Lieutenant Commander Taro Ebihara. Wikipedia calls her the last of 39 Japanese destroyers sunk by US Navy submarines. She was struck from the Navy List on 10 April 1945.
Sources: Allyn Nevitt's combinedfleet.com Tabular Record of Movement for IJN Nokaze; Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Nokaze, rewritten here.