Japanese people are exceptionally free to change their names.
Japanese names are written in kanji characters, but since there is no law in Japan regarding the reading of names , Japanese people are actually free to change the reading of their names without permission from the court. In fact, I changed the reading of my name without changing the kanji of my name. As a result, the Latin alphabetic notation of my name was changed , so internationally I succeeded in changing my real name without permission. As you know, the Japanese language uses multiple character systems. Japanese names are available in Japanese kanji , which are derived from Chinese characters, and in hiragana and katakana , which are phonetic characters . The English alphabet is of course commonly used in Japan, but it cannot be used for Japanese names . There are actually a huge number of kanji characters, but about 3,000 of them are permitted to be used in people's names. In Japan, there is a family register system in which people with Japanese citizenship have thei...