WRAL

Japan asked the international media to change how we write their names. No one listened

In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the "familiar map of China." In a full-page spread on ...
Yahoo

Japanese women have long sacrificed their surnames in marriage − politics and demographics might change that

For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have been bound by the Confucian notion of personal sacrifice for the good of the family – and that has extended to their names. Encouraged by a sexual ...
Reuters

Family comes first: Japan to switch order of names in victory for tradition

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to change the way Japanese names are written in English by putting the family name first, the same way they are written in Japanese, in a triumph for conservatives keen to ...
CNN

Japanese people could all be called Sato by 2531, study warns. But they’d need to get married first

About 1.8 million people out of Japan’s 125 million population have the surname Sato, Myoji Yurai says on its website. Yoshida – whose family name ranks 11th most common – was commissioned by the ...