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I'd love to see names always included once in their native script. >Foreign Minister 河野 太郎 (Kōno Tarō) said Tuesday he plans to ask overseas media outlets to w
by snthd 7y ago
I'd love to see names always included once in their native script.
>Foreign Minister 河野 太郎 (Kōno Tarō) said Tuesday he plans to ask overseas media outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as is customary in the country.
Implicitly that would be a declaration that the English isn't authoritative.
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- ip26 7y agoThat kinda makes them seem all the more alien, inserted in the middle of an English sentence like that. You could maybe flip it with the native script in parens.
- patio11 7y agoI like that Wikipedia does this regarding people and titled works of art, at least heading their own articles. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%C5%8D_K%C5%8Dno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%C5%8D_K%C5%8Dno