WI:WNT allows 15,000 ton carriers?

To recap:

1922-ish completion of Kaga and Akagi as aircraft carriers approved.

1927 - Ruyjo ordered. However, built as an 15,000 ton ship instead of the 7,000 ton official displacement of OTL. Her real displacement IOTL was 8,000 tons and ITTL it would be over 16,000 tons as it was built to the Soryu design.

1931 - Soryu and Hiryu ordered. Officially they displace 15,000 tons (instead of 10,050 tons IOTL) but they actually displace over 17,000 tons as they were both built to the Hiryu design.

1934 - A 27,000 ton carrier is ordered to use up the remainder of their 81,000 ton quota for big aircraft carriers. It would be ordered to an enlargement of the Shokaku class design of OTL (which displaced 25,675 tons) and given Japanese habit of lying about the size of its ships the actual displacement could have been more than 30,000 tons.

1937 - Shokaku and Zuikaku ordered, but they would be a development of the 27,000 ton carrier ordered in 1934 and probably displaced more than 30,000 tons.

I thought that by 1937 the Japanese were no longer signed up to the treaty?

So they can build what they like - to a point
 
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