Japanese names will have Surnames first in English
Nabanita Dutta
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The idea to use surname first was floating for years now, and finally, the Prime minister Shinzo Abe and some other ministers had started pushing for it again. On Friday, The government has agreed to make the change, starting from the government documents. In the traditional Japanese way, the family name comes first. It was only a century ago people started using the westernized way to write their names.