All three babies born in Japan this year will breath a sigh of relief I'm sure.
This year: three babies
Next year: 3 million kevinist kids shackled with absolutely dumb vanity names until they are permitted to change them.
Names that seem excessively “creative” can seem stupid to me, but government regulation is the worst way possible to try and deal with it. As usual, tolerance is the answer.
Weird. Go see Sweden.
What do you mean?
Little Bobby Tables nods approvingly.
(an old XKCD joke)
There really is an xkcd for everything.
While the revisions to the family registry act do not ban kanji – Chinese-based characters in written Japanese – parents are required to inform local authorities of their phonetic reading
Well this is fucking crazy to me. Almost every single form you ever have to write your name on in Japan also has a section that you have to write the phonetic reading of it as well. The fact that it doesn't exist on the family register is absolutely bonkers. I know Japan hates updating things, but even back in the day there were multiple readings for the same kanji characters, and the government being ok with ambiguity on official documents is blowing my mind.
Even before the shiny names the article is talking about the names could be wildly different. We're not talking about not knowing if Ashleigh is pronounced Ash-lee or Ash-lay, it's like 里香 being commonly read as either Rika or Satoko.
That really seems like a tool a government could use to abuse minority populations. Not to mention stagnate it's culture.
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Others have made headlines for their supposed impudence – Ōjisama (Prince) and Akuma (Devil).
Those poor Street Fighter fans can't get a break
The character's Japanese name is Gouki though. Not Akuma.
Pikachu, Naiki (Nike), Daiya (Diamond), Pū (as in Winnie-the-Pooh) and Kitty
Is that the worst they can come up with? They could learn a lot from Americans.
How many children unfortunate enough to have Elon Musk as their sperm donor have outlandish names/
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