Changes aim to standardise pronunciation of kanji characters and officials can refuse to accept a name deemed to negatively ...

Japan has introduced new rules on the names parents can give their children with restrictions on the pronunciation of kanji ...

Japan is putting outlandish baby names to rest by cracking down on niche monikers that have become trendy in recent years, ...

Japanese authorities have decided to restrict the phonetic readings of kanji characters in children’s names. This crackdown ...

Japan has introduced new rules restricting how names are spelled and pronounced. The new regulations, announced last week, ...

Government bans unconventional kanji pronunciations to dissuade parents from giving children quirky and individualistic names ...

Revisions to the Family Register Act, which came into effect on Monday, now limit the ways in which kanji – the Chinese characters used in written Japanese – can be read when registering a ...

All kinds of Japanese words for parts of the body have kanji with the “meat-moon” radical, including the brain (脳), shoulders (肩), knees (膝), and arms (腕 ...

If you go to Japan, there’s a chance you might meet someone with an unusual name – such as “Nike,” “Pikachu” or “Pudding.” ...

Languages: English. Since the 1980s, some parents have given their children names using kanji characters in such a way that creates a unique pronunciation. This has left schools, hospitals and ...