This would have made things easy for us in 1997, when we were deciding on a boy's name that would be recognizable in English and Japanese. In the end, we settle

This would have made things easy for us in 1997, when we were deciding on a boy's name that would be recognizable in English and Japanese. In the end, we settled on a variation of "Ken", which is the one recommended by this site anyway! We struggled a lot more with our second son....