• Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    “If everyone becomes Sato, we may have to be addressed by our first names or by numbers,” he said, according to the Mainichi. “I don’t think that would be a good world to live in.”

    What’s wrong with names?

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      8 months ago

      Lol the professors should talk to all the Taro, Ichiro, Jiro and Saburos in Japan about this.

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      8 months ago

      Not anyone find it good to be called by first name. And japanese culture is very attach to last name naming or I should say family name cause their are placing it the other way around.