You had a couple of carrier battles during the Guadalcanal campaign the Battle of the Eastern Solomons and the Battle of Santa Cruz and then for the most part the Japanese carriers were targets and in a defensive mode and offered little to no offensive punch at the Battle of the Philippine Sea aka the Marianna’s Turkey Shoot, better radar operations and fighter direction and control with the F6 Hellcat destroyed any offensive punch there. In the Battle of Leyte Gulf Japanese carriers were nothing more than bait.
Thanks. The Solomons campaign by the Japanese was an effort to establish land-based air supremacy with a view of (best case) conquest of Australia. Had they thought of that prior to attacking the US (or just instead of that) the Pacific War would have taken much longer, and the US nuclear arsenal might have been used first in Europe, or if only used against Japan, would have started later, when the inventory of a-bombs was large.