To: Crecente
From: Bashcraft
RE: Bipolar Weather
https://kotaku.com/bipolar-weather-5196167
Had to file out some housing papers this morning to finalize everything. Ran into a bit of confusion regarding the order of my name.
Japanese last names go first, followed by, well, first names. For [[link]] example, in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto is actually Miyamoto Shigeru. Hideo Kojima is Kojima Hideo. And so on.
When I first came to Japan, I registered as “Brian SOMETHING Ashcraft.” SOMETHING is where my middle name goes — but isn’t my middle name per se. Though, I kinda wish it was!
Japanese people don’t have middle names (by law, I think), and my middle name was actually mispelled by the government until very recently — SUMETHING or something like that.
Before I applied for my home loan, I changed the ordering of my [[link]] name on my foreigner registration to match the name ordering my family has: Ashcraft Mini-Bash, Ashcraft Micro-Bash, Ashcraft Mrs. Bashcraft, etc.
So my name then became Ashcraft Brian SOMETHING — with my middle name SOMETHING going at the end.
While filling out the bank papers today, there was some confusion of what my last name and first name were, and I had to change the ordering on my bank account as well to make everything jive. But got that taken care of, so whew!
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