High Five!

In my country you can only change your name if you have a strong reason pushing you to do so. You cannot just choose to change it for no reason other than you want to cause you don't like it enough.

Why would you want a Japanese name, anyway? Cause honestly, a non-Japanese person with an obvious Japanese name, sounds like you're trying to get yourself laughed at.

I would understand if you had some blood in you and you wanted to get closer to that side of your family that you know nothing about and want to support it but to change it over what people think and it sounds boring? That in my opinion is not a very good reason. My last name tsuruneru and that to me dose not make much since but im ok with it.

Wapanese or another reason?

That can also be a reason that he's not telling us.