The Japanese fleet listings show how rare it is to find a ship name without the suffix Maru. Seeing many company fleets together makes that pattern more obvious than isolated ship histories do. The observation raises a question about whether incident names involving Japanese merchant ships need to retain such a common suffix. The passage does not explain Maru's origin or meaning, so it should be read as evidence of the convention rather than its linguistic history.
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The recurring Maru suffix in Japanese merchant-ship names
A scan of the Japanese entries highlights how consistently merchant-ship names use Maru and raises a question about how maritime incidents are labeled.