She had about 2,475 men on board, including her crew of 2,175 officers and men and about three hundred shipyard workers. She carried no airplanes. In her hangar were fifty Oka guided suicide missiles, of the type designed to be dropped from planes, and six Shinyo suicide speed boats. It was intended that she would put the suicide crafts ashore in Kure, or perhaps deliver them to Okinawa at some point in the future.
