Why Azur Lane's national names differ between versions

Why do Azur Lane's Chinese writers use real names for former colonial powers when the Japanese and English versions do not?

The suggested reasons are separate translation departments and different audience sensitivities; the writers' actual reasoning is not established.

Separate translation departments are proposed as an explanation for Azur Lane's Chinese version using real names for former colonial powers where the Japanese and English versions avoid them. The discussion also suggests different sensitivities among audiences, while offering this as an interpretation rather than a confirmed account of the writers' decisions. It then considers how names for China and Chinese analogues vary in Chinese media, contrasting them with the smaller set of English names used for Britain. Localization can therefore change the national labels readers encounter even when the underlying fictional setting is shared.