Asashio was the lead ship of the ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Program.
Asashio underway in July 1937.
Asashio
The 2nd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme otherwise known as the "Circle 2 Plan" was the second of four expansion plans of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1930 and the start of World War II.
Japanese destroyer Asashio (1936)
…Asashio (朝潮; "Morning Tide") was the lead ship of the ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Program (Maru Ni Keikaku). The Asashio-class destroyers were larger and more capable that the preceding Shiratsuyu class, as Japanese naval architects were no…
Construction of the cruiser Tone was authorized under the "Circle-2 Plan"