Every year at around this time I do a quick sweep of family finances, which often involves working with a new Japanese financial firm, which means I get a quick object lesson in http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ … Today's example is a Kafkaesque nightmare.
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*sigh* I forgot that my name has to be on all sorts of paperwork for Ruriko and the kids and, while corporate persons do get lots of leeway in how they spell their names, they can't marry natural persons yet. Drats, foiled again.
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"Why don't you just change your name?" Aside from the "I already have one perfectly good name and a Japanese transliteration of it which, in a just world, would actually work" that buys me a new genre of "Oh that can't possibly ACTUALLY be your name" tweet, for rest of life.
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