Last name first, first name last: Japan minister tells foreign media to get it right

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Taro Kono – or is it Kono Taro? – says journalists should treat Japanese politicians the same as their Chinese or South Korean equivalents

Japan’s foreign minister will ask international media organisations to use the family name first when writing Japanese names – as is customary in the Japanese language – in an attempt to reverse a century of linguistic convention.

 

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They are doing this with Hungarian names too, we put the family name first too then the given name but English media reverse it.

That means'all to gather'', & 'all for one and one for all'. Love Japanese

Self centered Japan. (I'm Japanese and fed up with the gov being so arrogant)

This is why I couldn't get Japanese names right. Different with Koreans, they're obvious

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