Zuiho was the name ship of a class of two Japanese light aircraft carriers. She was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 20 June 1935 as the submarine tender Takasaki, designed to be completed as either a fleet oiler or a light carrier. She was launched on 19 June 1936, renamed Zuiho during a long conversion, and completed on 27 December 1940. She displaced about 11,443 tons at standard load and had a flush flight deck with no island. DANFS does not cover Japanese ships, so this account follows Wikipedia, which draws on Jentschura and Lengerer.
She was in the Battle of Midway as part of the main body, which was not engaged. At the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942, nine of her Zeros attacked aircraft from Enterprise and shot down several, while two scout SBDs from Enterprise hit her with 500-pound bombs, which put her flight deck out of action. Captain Sueo Obayashi commanded her at Santa Cruz, and Bunjiro Yamaguchi took over before the end of 1942. She withdrew to Truk and then to Japan, and repairs were completed on 16 December 1942. She covered the evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943, and her air group was based ashore several times in 1943.
She was in the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19 and 20 June 1944 as a decoy with the Third Carrier Division and was not hit. At Cape Engano on 25 October 1944, in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, she was hit by a bomb aft early in the morning, and later in the day by a torpedo and bombs, and her engine rooms flooded. She was abandoned in the afternoon and sank about 15 minutes later at 19-20 N, 125-15 E. Wikipedia puts her losses at 7 officers and 208 men, and says the destroyer Kuwa and the battleship Ise rescued 58 officers and 701 men. The site record gives the same rescue figures. The DANFS entry for Langley (CVL-27) lists her aircraft among those that helped destroy Zuiho and Zuikaku.