For Whom and by Whom Children Are Named: Family Involvement in Contemporary Japanese Naming Practices

In pre-modern Japanese naming practices, familial relationships were frequently demonstrated systematically through personal names, but with changing lifestyles, family structures and naming trends, such systematic ways of creating familial ties through personal names have largely been lost. However...

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Main Author: Giancarla Unser-Schutz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Genealogy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/3/2/29