This article may provide some additional light on the subject although the author does not identify his sources.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/were-tankers-the-key-to-imperial-japans-early-wartime-success/
I will continue looking but other than the picture of a Tone class cruiser being refueled alongside a tanker in 1944 that may be the only definitive proof we have of side by side replenishment by the IJN.
https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/770537817470888349/
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