 She was scheduled to be turned over to the Japanese merchant marine to be manned by a Japanese crew under American control for use in repatriating Japanese citizens and shuttling supplies between Japanese ports.After the ship was stripped of all armament and other wartime equipment, "LST-31" was decommissioned on 8 January 1946, and transferred to the Japanese.The vessel operated under Japanese control into May 1948, when she was returned to US Naval custody.