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Eh. 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: L
by vitus 3y ago
Eh.
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...