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9 unusual facts about Japanese name


Kaito

Kaito ( かいと) is a Japanese (male) given name which may be written in numerous ways, for example as: Kaito: 海斗 (most common), 海翔, 海人, 快斗, 凱斗, 海都

Kelewan

Some of the names mentioned are very clearly modelled after Nahuatl names, others Japanese, showing some of Feist's influences.

Mizoguchi

Mizoguchi (溝口 "gutter/drain entrance") is a Japanese surname.

Mozilla Japan

The name combines the English word "fox" with the suffix "suke" (すけ; 助, 輔, 介) found in some Japanese male names.

Nishino

Nishino (西野) is a Japanese name.

Onitsuka

Onitsuka (鬼束) is a Japanese surname.

Sarasa

Sarasa is a female name in Japanese.

Utsumi

Utsumi (内海) is a Japanese family name.

Yonai

Yonai (米内, lit. "rice inside") is a Japanese surname.


Fujiko

Fujiko is a Japanese feminine given name, usually derived from 藤 (Fuji), which means "Wisteria", and the suffix 子 (-ko), which means "child" or "child of".

Zhenren

Note that Japanese 真人 can be pronounced shinjin in the Daoist sense and Masato (e.g., Masato Shimon) or Mahito (Mahito Tsujimura) as a given name.


see also

Ash Ketchum

His name is derived from the Japanese name (as the letters 'ash' are included in 'Satoshi') and his English motto, "Gotta Catch 'Em All". Ash's dream is to become a Pokémon Master. He is loosely based on Red, the protagonist from the Generation I games Pokémon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow, as well as the Generation III games Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen versions.

Experimental Geodetic Payload

After launch, the satellite was renamed Ajisai (the Japanese name for the Hydrangea plant), but it is most commonly known by the acronym EGP.

Gojiro

It reinterprets the Godzilla film series from the perspective of the daikaiju—not a fictional creature depicted on-screen via suitmation, but an irradiated varanid-turned B-movie star named Gojiro (an homage to Gojira, the Japanese name for Godzilla).

Ibotenic acid

"Ibotenic" comes from the Japanese name for the Amanita strobiliformis mushroom, iboten(gutake), from which it was first isolated.

JIRA

The product name, JIRA, is not an acronym but rather a truncation of "Gojira", the Japanese name for Godzilla.

Kounotori

Kounotori is the Japanese name for the Oriental Stork.

Nakajima Ki-44

The People's Liberation Army Air Force managed to get hold of aircraft formerly belonging to 22nd and 85th Sentai, who had disbanded in Chosen, the Japanese name for Korea during their imperial rule (1910–1945) over that country.

Names of Sun Yat-sen

Previously on their travel they passed by a board that used the popular Japanese name Nakayama (中山, lit. middle mountain).

Shinkyo

Shinkyō (新京), the Japanese name of the capital of former pupper-state Manchukuo

Tadashi Sawamura

The Japanese name for Hitmonlee, a Pokémon character, is Sawamurā, which is a reference to Sawamura.

Tadeshi

Tadeshi is an alternate spelling of the Japanese name Tadashi

Taiyō Kea

In order to identify him more with the audience, Mossman was given the semi-Japanese name "Taiyō Kea" (from taiyo, sun, and the Polynesian word kea).

Takasago Army

Takasago (Chinese: 高砂, Japanese: タカサゴ) is an ancient Japanese name for Taiwan.

Takuji Iwasaki

The Japanese name "Oogomadara" means "paper kite" or the "rice paper butterfly", Idea leuconoe, and is known especially for its presence in butterfly greenhouses and live butterfly expositions.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau

The PSB had failed in securing a Russian man wanted for spying in Japanese territory as a suspected agent of the SVR since the 1960s when he left Japan in 1995 and reentered the country several times before being unaccounted for when the spy used a Japanese name to obtain a Japanese passport in Vienna.

Two Flowers for the Dragon

According to author, his name comes from Chū Shin Chi, the Japanese name of actor Stephen Chow Sing-Chi.

Vairocana

During the initial stages of his mission in Japan, the Catholic missionary Francis Xavier was welcomed by the Shingon monks since he used Dainichi, the Japanese name for Vairocana, to designate the Christian God.

Willigis Jäger

Willigis Jäger (born 7 March 1925 in Hösbach) is a German Benedictine monk, mystic, and Zen master, who trained and taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition (being given the Japanese name Koun-ken) until 2009, and then continued his own sangha independently.

Xiahou Dun

The anime Battle Vixens, Koihime Musō, and Yuyushiki also make references to Xiahou Dun, in which he is known by his Japanese name "Kakōton".

Yunmen Wenyan

Yunmen's Japanese name, Ummon, was the namesake for a character which was featured prominently in Dan Simmons' acclaimed Hyperion Cantos science fiction series; Simmon's Ummon was a vastly advanced, intelligent AI from the "TechnoCore", who reveals key plot elements to the main characters, through koans and mondo (dialogue).