[Fiji Hill]

I get a kick out of the Japanese naming conventions for their ships. They had a destroyer named the Floral Fragrance and one of their aircraft carriers that fought at Midway was named the Increased Joy. The other Japanese carriers at Midway were the Flying Dragon, Green Dragon and Red Castle.

Incidentally, Yamato was named for a Japanese province.

[poconopundit]

Interesting, Fiji. More detail on Yamato is here:

https://www.google.com/search?radiosearch=&q=what+is+the+meaning+of+yamato+in+japanese

[central_va]

IJN Fleet carriers were named after the major islands in the Japanese archipelago.

All, Here is a great website that documents the IJN:

Imperial Japanese Navy Page