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Thank you for your interest in Japanese surnames.
I will be sending you information about Japanese surnames from Japan. There are many interesting Japanese surnames, some beautiful, some historical, and many with beautiful pronunciations and shapes, so I hope you will learn and enjoy Japanese surnames.
A surname is a Japanese family name that represents the family lineage of a Japanese person. In the West, it is called “last name,” but in Japan it is given before the name. There are about 300,000 types of Japanese surnames, which are derived from nature, direction, topography, and so on. Most surnames in Japan are expressed using Japanese kanji characters, but there are many surnames that even Japanese people cannot read due to the complexity of how to read the kanji. There are also some surnames that are read or combined with kanji in an attractive way, or that give a sense of their origins.
This site will introduce you to some of the surnames in Japan.