The name means April. Uzuki was a Mutsuki-class destroyer built at Ishikawajima in Tokyo. She was laid down on 11 January 1924, launched on 15 October 1925 and commissioned on 14 September 1926 as Destroyer No. 25. She received her name on 1 August 1928. In the late 1930s she covered landings in China and the move into French Indochina.
At Pearl Harbor she was in Destroyer Squadron 23 with Carrier Division 2, and sailed from the Bonin Islands for the Guam landing; Wikipedia counts her in the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941. She covered the Kavieng landing on 23 January 1942 and the northern Solomons, Lae and Admiralty Islands landings in March. She escorted the tanker Hoyo Maru in the Shortlands during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Aircraft strafed her at the Buka landing on 21 and 22 July, killing 16. On 11 August she went to rescue survivors of the cruiser Kako.
She was damaged by a B-17 near miss on a Tokyo Express run at the end of August 1942. On 25 December 1942 at Rabaul she collided with the torpedoed transport Nankai Maru and was damaged again; an air raid hit her on 5 January 1943. She sailed for Sasebo under her own power by 3 July and returned to Truk in October. On 23 and 24 October she went to Jacquinot Bay to rescue survivors of her sister Mochizuki. On 24 and 25 November 1943 she engaged American destroyers at the Battle of Cape St. George, during the evacuation of Buka, without damage.
In the Battle of the Philippine Sea she was in the Second Supply Force and sank the crippled oiler Genyo Maru with gunfire after rescuing her crew on 20 June 1944. On 12 December 1944 she was escorting a troop convoy from Manila to Ormoc when PT-490 and PT-492 torpedoed her 50 miles northeast of Cebu. She exploded and sank, with 170 crew lost including her commanding officer, and 59 survivors. She was struck from the Navy List on 10 January 1945.
Sources: Allyn Nevitt's combinedfleet.com Tabular Record of Movement for IJN Uzuki; Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Uzuki, rewritten here.