It isn’t the 1950’s anymore, and I think we can handle Japanese names the way they are supposed to be. I’m just going to start doing it, and maybe even correct people in public. (fwiw, I did read a foreign policy book recently that used the Japanese name-order)
Anyway, for me, it feels like two separate names, so I have to remember it twice. I’ve even missed Wikipedia entries I was looking for because I searched with the Japanese name-order.
I usually kind of cringe at discussions around cultural autonomy and respect, but this actually seems like an area where it applies. We also don’t do it to Chinese names for some reason
by vote4boat