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Therefore, to those familiar with Japanese names, which name is the surname and which is the given name is usually apparent, no matter in which order the names are presented. It is thus unlikely that the two names will be confused, for example, when writing in English while using the family name-given name naming order.
SN=Surname, Family name or Clan name; GN=Given name or Penname SN-GN without exception: pro: simple; consistent with Japanese name order; consistent with academic books and articles (this is the method the Encyclopedia Britannica uses, except that for people who are primarily known by a single name, such as Basho or Shiki, where they use a single name).
The top 10 surnames cover approximately 10% of the population, while the top 100 surnames cover slightly more than 33%. [ 3 ] This ranking is a result of an August 2008 study by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company , [ 3 ] which included approximately 6,118,000 customers of Meiji Yasuda's insurance and annuities.
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Japanese-language surnames of Chinese origin (1 P) Pages in category "Japanese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,988 total.
The Old Book of Tang (舊唐書), one of the Twenty-Four Histories, stated that the Japanese envoy disliked his country's name Woguo (Chinese) (倭國), and changed it to Nippon (日本), or "Origin of the Sun". Another 8th-century chronicle, True Meaning of Shiji (史記正義), however, states that the first female Chinese Emperor Wu Zetian ...
In Uganda, the ordering "traditional family name first, Western origin given name second" is also frequently used. [17] When East Asian names are transliterated into the Latin alphabet, some people prefer to convert them to the Western order, while others leave them in the Eastern order but write the family name in capital letters. To avoid ...
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