Two quick anecdotes from Japan: The bank that I used for 15 years sent me a postcard saying that, because they guessed by my name that I'm a foreigner, they were required to have me travel X00 miles to the branch where I opened my account to present my papers in person for KYC.
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For social reasons I won't recount their exact resolution of their compliance responsibilities, but it was a lot more reasonable than what the postcard suggested the policy was. * She actually said Mr. Hattori but I've done telephone customer service before and can empathize.
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"But why Hattori?" Because the Japanese pronunciation of my name, Patorikku Mikkenjii, sounds reasonably close and therefore gets confused a lot with Hattori Kenji (服部健二), which is a reasonable name for e.g. a Brazilian-of-Japanese-descent customer of that bank branch.
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You make Japan sound so wonderful.
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