The Naka was a 5,195-ton displacement Sendai-class light cruiser of the Japanese Navy commissioned in 1925, serving throughout the Pacific in WWII until she was sunk by aircraft from the USS Bunker Hill and USS Cowpens 35 miles west of Truk in 1944, with the loss of over half her crew.

This waterline kit of the Naka from Aoshima is sharply molded in gray styrene, and depicts the ship in its 1933 configuration.