We can't assume that the sailors who fired even knew where Japan is. They were probably conscripts with little to no education.
Mothballed Ticonderoga class cruisers at Philadelphia Navy Yard
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/1055169222949535744
Nuclear icebreaker '50 Let Pobedy' en route to North Pole, 2013
French battleship Dunkerque, anchored at Spithead, May 1937. Representing France at the Grand Naval Review celebrating the coronation of King George VI