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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"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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Not really; for certain official business you have to use the name on your (foreign) passport, and then that sometimes trickles down through to things like banks. I think you have to become a Japanese citizen to be able to adopt a Japanese name.
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