Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
Props to the author for putting in the hard yards here.  I used to work with a major geocoding service, and Japanese addresses were a nightmare, both in the original Japanese and when translated to English.  In many places in Japan (Kyushu, Okinawa and Hokkaido are particularly bad), the kanji readings of names are completely impenetrable even to native Japanese speakers:<p><a href="https://soranews24.com/2016/12/01/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-insane-kanji-place-names-in-japan%E3%80%90weird-top-five%E3%80%91/" rel="nofollow">https://soranews24.com/2016/12/01/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-ins...</a><p>And then you get to deal with this kind of extra weirdness:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system#Special_cases" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system#Spe...</a>