EDITORIAL: Issue of how to read names in kanji requires a full public airing | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Proposed legislation to impose restrictions on how names written in kanji characters can and should be read concerns all Japanese whose names are registered with the authorities. This is an issue that must be built on broad public consensus.

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