From: Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Japanese names & alphabetization
Date: 08 Oct 1996 09:49:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7buedzhuu.fsf@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 07 Oct 1996 16:04:22 +0100
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>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
LMI> I never seem to be able to remember how to alphabetizise Japanese
LMI> names. The family name is the first name, isn't it?
The convention is to follow the conventions of the language being used.
When speaking or writing Japanese -- even with "romaji" -- the family
name comes first; when speaking or writing in the "Western" langauges
the given name comes first.
LMI> Ishikawa Ichiro,
LMI> Morioka Tomohiko,
LMI> Masaharu Onishi,
LMI> Hideki Ono,
LMI> Katsumi Yamaoka.
LMI> Could someone who knows about these things tell me which are the
LMI> family names?
My best guess... Ishikawa, Morioka, Onishi, Ono, Yamaoka.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-08 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-07 15:04 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-08 10:40 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
1996-10-08 13:49 ` Richard Pieri [this message]
1996-10-10 22:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-11 13:51 ` Richard Pieri
1996-10-19 17:52 ` Steven L Baur
1996-10-20 13:11 ` luis fernandes
1996-10-08 21:01 ` Carsten Leonhardt
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