Most US skippers probably didn't know the name of the Japanese ships they sank, unless they were lucky enough to catch the name on the hull or among the wreckage and it was in English. They just went by silhouette, size and how they matched up to the probable class in the ID book, which was always very iffy.
By the way what is it you don't like about Japanese ship names....that a lot of them are in Japanese?
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