Oite was a destroyer of the Kamikaze class in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She served as flagship of Destroyer Division 29, with command of the division held by an officer other than the destroyer's own captain.
Yoshio Yanase was her captain at the Wake Island attack in December 1941. He was relieved on 30 October 1942.
On 11 December 1941, in the Battle of Wake Island, Oite was near the destroyer Hayate when the shore battery sank Hayate. Near misses from that battery, named Battery L in the cruiser account, fell around Oite.
Those near misses damaged a gun and wounded fourteen of her men. She remained afloat, and the ship was not lost at Wake. She came back for the landing on 23 December.
On 18 February 1944 an aerial torpedo struck her at the North Pass into Truk and broke the hull in half. The sinking is not credited to one plane. About twenty men survived.