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Originally Posted by minminRW
The rule you referred is NOT the real rule I think, it is just a habit.
Of course I think it is right to use katakana in business or formal situation, but we dont have to mind for private use such as screen name or nickname among our friends.
I know many friends who play Japanese Budo, and some of them use kanji for his name and stitch on their Dougi. Once I made combination of kanji for a friend who is ninja master living in Greece.
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There are practices, such as sumo, which require the participant to have a Japanese name. In these cases wrestlers do adopt Japanese names, but not in the way Jacob did, but finding kanji that
can make the sounds that make his name.
If you want to play with kanji, that is fine, but don't expect Japanese people to be able to read or understand what is written. That is the nature of kanji when you try to bend it to meet your own, personal needs.