Editing Japanese name (section)

== In Chinese ==
In Chinese-speaking communities, Japanese names are pronounced according to the Chinese pronunciations of the characters.<ref>[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] Monitoring Service. ''Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, Part 3''. Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1984. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PU_VAAAAMAAJ&q=%22 SWB FE/7688/A3/9 6 Jul 84]. "Meanwhile, the Chinese give Japanese names in Chinese pronunciation."</ref> For example, in [[Standard Mandarin]], {{nihongo|Yamada Tarō|山田 太郎}} becomes Shāntián Tàiláng, while {{nihongo|Hatoyama Yukio|鳩山 由紀夫}} becomes Jiūshān Yóujìfū. As a result, a Japanese person without adequate knowledge of Chinese would not understand their name when it is spoken in Chinese languages. Simply porting the kanji into Chinese and reading them as if they were Chinese is also different from the [[Transcription into Chinese characters|usual Chinese practice of approximating foreign names with similar-sounding Chinese characters]].

Sometimes, a Japanese name includes {{transliteration|ja|[[kokuji]]}}. These kanji resemble [[Chinese characters]] but originate in Japan and do not have widely known Chinese pronunciations. For example, the word {{nihongo||込|komu}}, read as {{transliteration|zh|yū}} in Chinese) is rarely used in modern Chinese reading. When words like this are encountered, usually the rule of "{{lang|zh-Hant|有邊讀邊，沒邊讀中間}}" ("[[Youbian dubian|read the side if any]], read the middle part if there is no side") applies. Therefore, "{{lang|ja|込}}" is read as {{transliteration|zh|rù}} which is derived from {{lang|zh-Hans|入}}.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

Heng Ji wrote that because Japanese names have "flexible" lengths, it may be difficult for someone to identify a Japanese name when reading a Chinese text.<ref>Ji, Heng. "Improving Information Extraction and Translation Using Component Interactions." [[ProQuest]], 2007. {{ISBN|0549582479}}, 9780549582472. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MNp_4kMBCKkC&pg=PA53 53]. "Chinese → Japanese It's difficult to identify Japanese names in Chinese texts because of their flexible name lengths. However, if they can be 'back-translated' into Japanese, the Japanese-specific information could be used for names – they[...]"</ref> When consulting English texts a Chinese reader may have difficulty identifying a Japanese name; an example was when Chinese media mistook Obama's pet turkey ''Abe'' taken from [[Abe Lincoln]] (monosyllabic) for [[Shinzo Abe]] (disyllabic).<ref>Denyer, Simon. "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/26/a-turkey-or-the-japanese-prime-minister-chinese-smirk-as-obama-pardons-abe/ A turkey, or the Japanese prime minister? Chinese smirk as Obama pardons Abe.]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151212153459/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/26/a-turkey-or-the-japanese-prime-minister-chinese-smirk-as-obama-pardons-abe/ Archive]). ''[[Washington Post]]''. November 26, 2015. Retrieved on December 17, 2015.</ref>

One place where Japanese names may be transliterated into [[Chinese languages]] phonetically is in Japanese video games, anime and manga series. In May 2016, [[Nintendo]] sparked anger among fans in [[Hong Kong]] by announcing that its new ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, [[Pokémon Sun and Moon|''Sun'' and ''Moon'']], would use translations based upon Mandarin across all parts of China and [[Taiwan]]. As the variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong, [[Cantonese]], has many phonological differences from Mandarin, this results in names of well-known characters such as [[Pikachu]] being rendered and pronounced much different from the original Japanese.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://qz.com/695136/nintendo-is-renaming-pikachu-in-one-of-its-largest-markets-and-hong-kongers-are-not-happy/|title=Nintendo is renaming Pikachu in one of its largest markets, and Hong Kongers are not happy — Quartz|first=Zheping|last=Huang|date=30 May 2016|website=qz.com|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>