Family comes first: Japan to switch order of names in victory for tradition

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Japan aims to change the way Japanese names are written in English by putting the family name first, the same way they are written in Japanese, in a triumph for conservatives keen to preserve traditional ways in a fast-changing world

TOKYO, Sept 6 - .

"It is better to follow the Japanese tradition when Japanese names are written in the Roman alphabet," Shibayama said, according to the Kyodo news agency. Traditionally, family names come first in Japanese, as they do in China and Korea. But beginning in the late 19th century, Japanese began adopting the Western custom of putting the given name first and family name second, at least when writing their names in English.

 

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