It’s called the Subaru telescope because it is the flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. In Japanese, Subaru means “six”, but it also the name of the star cluster we call the Pleiades. The car company was at least partly named for the star cluster(check out their logo) and because Subaru was the result of the merger of six smaller Japanese auto companies.
The number of prominent stars in the Pleiades depends on the observer, we traditionally call the Pleiades, “the seven sisters”, but there are hundreds of stars in the Pleiades, several of which are naked eye stars.
The Pleiades are pretty prominent in the sky right now.
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan is in Hawaii? Boy, I’m gonna go find Mr. Small and punch him right in the nose! Telling all us gullible sixth graders America won World War Two. I suppose the Italians have a telescope in Florida and the Germans probably have one in New Hampshire.