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naming customs in Japanese culture

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Subclass of
full name
Has part
art name
Country
Japan
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Yamada Tarō (山田太郎), a Japanese placeholder name (male), equivalent to John Smith in English. The equivalent of Jane Smith would be Yamada Hanako (山田花子).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Japanese name” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.