“Well it should be the same as the name on your employment documents.” “I agree, as that is my name. Happily, my employers got it right.” “And so you should have typed that in.” “Literally not possible.” “What do you mean.” “Try it then call Tier 2 please.”
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“Why would I call Tier 2?” “On previous experience when writing my mortgage the bank was willing to accept that despite there being multiple competing interpretations of what my name is among governments, employers, and bank systems, my money is the usual color.”
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One of these days when I have nothing pressing for, oh, six months or so I’m going to petition the relevant agency to start the waterfall through IDs that will standardize *sigh* many of them at any rate.
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And then have to have the “Wait you changed your name” “I got an orthographic correction applied to an ID” “Counts as a name change” “I figured that would be the case.” “So could you please fill out these 30 forms longhand” conversation at every office which knows me or family.
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In hindsight, did you ever wonder whether you should have just adopted a common Japanese name when you moved to japan? I know my girlfriend in college, who’s Mandarin name was both unspellable and unpronounceable (lauo dthone won - roughly) - just used Wendy Lau, called it a day.
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I do not think that being Taro Tanaka would improve my life on net, though it would save me a lot of fiddling in web applications. One genre of new problem this buys: "Hiya I'm Taro Tanaka." "POLICE! An identity thief!"
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Why isn't it permitted?
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Capital letter in surname at position other than beginning?
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Muzukashi mondai desu nee...
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are there multiple competing katakana interpretations?
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