A short note on Japanese names, and how they should be presented in the media

News by Matt S.

One of the biggest challenges in writing about Japan - its art, artists, and country - is something you likely don't think about much. It's the syntax for the names. Because in Japan, they're reversed - in other words the format for names is to put the surname (family) name first, and the given name second. This makes localisation, and writing about the country in another language, a challenging one.

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