Comments on: Francis Xavier & Ruiji Izumi

By: LB

LB — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:25:29 +0000

It is not necessary to take a Japanese name. You can continue to use the name you used prior to taking citizenship. You don’t even need to use Kanji, either of the kana syllabaries are fine – but you cannot use roman letters (duh…).

In addition to Son Masayoshi, I might mention Ramos Rui and Santos Aresandoro.

As for Ruiji Izumi, it looks like he took “Izumi” as the meaning is quite close to “Fontes”, and from Luis to Ruiji… well, you can figure it out while you are being irritated.

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By: James

James — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:53:33 +0000

It is not necessary. For someone logging in to leave comments from a Japanese ISP, you don’t seem very aware of the system they have over here:

For many years naturalized citizens were required to adopt a Japanese family name. This requirement was abolished in the late 1980s. A well-known example of someone who did not adopt a Japanese name is Masayoshi Son, the wealthiest man in Japan as of 2007, who naturalized using his Korean family name rather than the Japanese family name he used during his youth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nationality_law

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By: jb

jb — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:44:50 +0000

it irritates me that in order to become a citizen one must take a japanese name. why is this necessary? the only other group which i know of doing this is islam

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Francis Xavier`s Relative « Catholic in Japan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:53:06 +0000

[...] Xavier`s Relative 18 02 2009 From japanprobe Did you know that a blood relative of the Saint Francis Xavier is currently living in Japan? [...]

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