Japanese Aegis ship names and classification

Would Japan's new Aegis ships receive province or mountain names?

Both are considered possible, depending on classification and existing naming traditions.

Province names are the initial expectation, with mountains then considered plausible. A participant links the choice to continuing a destroyer lineage or entering another category. Translating Japanese terms directly as destroyer is questioned because they can have a broader escort or screening meaning. The terminology used for the ships therefore affects a naming prediction. No firm decision is established.