Given that the Pleiades in the constellation of Taurus are known as
the Seven Sisters all over the world (although there are only six of
them) and that "six" and "seven" are loanwords in IndoEuropean and
Semitic, it is odd that the Japanese word for Pleiades is "Subaru".

http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/subaru.htm

Torsten