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Every Japanese and Korean person I work with presents their names with the family name last when operating in an English speaking context. Conversely, my (Ameri
by wrp 3y ago
Every Japanese and Korean person I work with presents their names with the family name last when operating in an English speaking context. Conversely, my (American) name is often written family name first (and in katakana) when I'm in Japan.
Real cultural sensitivity is accepting the social conventions of the society you are operating in.
- vitus 3y agoEh. I've never seen any articles referring "Jinping Xi", "Jong-Un Kim", "Jae-in Moon", "Zedong Mao", Yat-sen Sun". Non-heads of state get similar treatment: Lee Sedol, Bong Joon-Ho, Yao Ming vs. Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa. This seems to have originated in the Meiji era (in the 19th century), when the Japanese assimilated many aspects of Western culture and traditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name#In_English_and_other_Western_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name#In_English_and_o...
- resolutebat 3y agoYup, that's the problem, the practice is inconsistent even in Japan and we do say Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu etc for sufficiently historical figures. The Wikipedia guideline for this is quite the mess of exceptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Japan-related_articles#Personal_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Japa...