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Hello! I am writing a fiction book and part of it takes place in Japan. I have some Japanese characters that I’m going to write into the story and I want to make sure to do Japanese culture justice. My problem is that I know little about Japanese name. Specifically in this case, surnames / family names. In English I could combine two random words to make one surname. An example would be fire and feather to make the name Firefeather. Can I do that type of name creation in Japanese too? Or is there more grammatical structure or cultural context that I need to know?
I’ve been playing a game called Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, and the name of the island they’re on is Rogetsu Isle. When I’m reading the name off, am I supposed to pronounce the U? I know some Japanese words you do not pronounce it, like in Asuka, and of course the verbs like desu, ikimasu, etc. But would you pronounce it at the end of Rogetsu?