Japanese characters on the side of IJN Kako

[tryc]

Hi,
I found this picture of the IJN Kako

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with Japanese characters on its side. I didn't think cruisers normally had these and it was normally destroyers with characters on them. The image is a rather low resolution but I was wondering what it said/ what the characters were (I don't know any Japanese). Hopefully, it's legible.
Thanks!

[Waleed Y. Majeed]

Here‘s an edited version of the picture. I‘m not quite sure what you mean by characters, I don‘t see any.

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Waleed

[tryc]

Ah, my bad! To me in the rather poor quality of the first image, the white on the side looked like characters. Now it would seem they truly are 'characters'! Just not in the sense I thought they were (ha ha).

The last five marks on the right https://imgur.com/MnlIJOt don't really look like people still, and they're at a different level to the people. I thought perhaps these could could be Japanese characters.