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>Similarly, Chinese and Korean names are usually written in the order they are pronounced, while Japanese names are reversed.

As a Chinese speaker this is maddeningly confusing when reading Western media. It's also a fairly new trend, I want to say a decade ago Chinese and Korean names were also read in Western order.



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