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06-04-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by TheLastFortnight View Post
But if the name is Japanese is it easier to know the kanji which it is written?
My surname, I'm not worried about telling it, is Yoneyama and when I was at my Japanese language school my teacher said it's written like this in kanji:

米山
It depends. That's the only way I have seem Yoneyama written, so unless your family had an obscure way of writing it, chances are it is right. However some names can be written many different ways, and, on the other side, some names are difficult to read.
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