Numbered destroyers and crew identity

Fubuki ships began construction with numbers and received names by launch. A morale-based interpretation holds that numbers weakened crew attachment to their ships and that the official explanation of communications confusion concealed the resulting discontent. The rapid reversal is offered as evidence: a genuine training problem would, in this argument, have prompted a longer attempt to fix communications. Avoiding an admission of error also mattered amid rivalry with the army. The return to names is approved as a practical response, while the explanation of the leadership's motives remains an interpretation.