To make a name there are like 10 different ways to make it, some of them are obscure or not appropriate so they made a law to only limit the characters to non-obscure and appropriate characters. It was a law made after WW 2, *googling the exact numbers* 843 "name kanji" and 2,136 commonly used characters are allowed to be used in a name.
There was a lawsuit won a few years ago that had a judge say they cant do things like that as common characters are shifting by region and such so they have since started to increase the allowed characters, things not appropriate like using the kanji for "Akuma" aka devil are still banned.
edited 4th Nov '17 5:10:52 AM by Memers
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Yeah, I don't know the rationale behind what kanji are and aren't allowed, only that the rule exists.
Trump just arrived at Yokota Air Base for the Tokyo visit.
The TMPD's deploying the ERT to prevent anyone from using vehicles on soft targets.
It was an attempt to simplify Japanese names a bit so that names are actually readable by people, limiting it to just 3000! total characters to make up a name. It went with school system reforms and teaching modern kanji in an attempt to centralize the Japanese language.
It also banned rude and inappropriate Alternate Character Reading, So you cant name a person 'Shithead' but its read as 'Hitomi' or something to that effect.
edited 5th Nov '17 4:19:44 AM by Memers
Putting this here as well, as Trump's comments will probably be used by Chinese media to justify the current political posture towards Japanese defense evolution.
Trump warns China it could face ‘big problem’ with ‘warrior nation’ Japan over North Korea
.... that was exactly the wrong WRONG thing to say...
The Wanderer
Wow.
And just after I said this...
Why does Trump make the US, and Japan, the aggressor and not the defending party?
United Earth
Obviously he's never heard of the Roman Republic's earlier cautious and methodic empire-building strategy of conquest-by-defensive-war-exclusively, a.k.a. "Ego princeps in terra, et hinc possum videre domum tuum."
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I think he's entertaining the idea he can just kill everyone if they don't follow his line on North Korea.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
I don't think he should talk so lightly about killing people, given what happened in his home country today...
A good look at Japanese right-wing nationalists and their issues.
Didn't happen to him did it? It's the usual bluster, since he has no other approach to issues.
"Rising"? It never left.
edited 5th Nov '17 10:23:37 PM by TerminusEst
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Oh, bother.
Yeah, Japanese rightwing nationalism has always been there. The legacy of WWII and Imperial Japan.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Yeah, Japan was never given the same treatment that (West) Germany got, ideologically.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Found it interesting that the papers are comparing Trump's reception with the Imperial family (aka His/Her Majesty of Japan) compared to Obama at least in the Asia-Pacific region papers.
http://www.nippon.com/en/currents/d00275/
An analysis on how the JGSDF can run into trouble in future PK Os.
This IS the branch that had deployed spies to other countries without the knowledge of the Cabinet. I'm sure they'll figure something out.
edited 13th Nov '17 9:34:39 AM by TerminusEst
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Makes a good tv show and second, that's really interesting. I'm sure that it'll be in the Japanese wiki page soon.
Post-election shenanigans after the snap election in Japan.
edited 15th Nov '17 6:14:00 AM by TerminusEst
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171116_23/
Twitter's CEO has addressed the problem regarding a serial killer who used twitter to talk to victims who were thinking about suicide and kill them.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171118_14/
Meanwhile, the JSDF announced that their JMSDF base in Djibouti will receive an expansion and upgrades.
Djibouti is getting awfully crowded.
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Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
How blurred out is the place in Google Earth?
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
There are only certain characters that are legally allowed to be used in given names. Try to use something outside that list the government will refuse to register the name and tell you to go back and change it.
And where's the harm in that character? I mean, not that I know much about the language, but is it a matter of romanization?
edited 4th Nov '17 4:33:33 AM by HallowHawk