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What’s in a name? 
We avoided the whole name mess by simply keeping our respective last names.

With my job (I'm a researcher) it's important to keep your name throughout your career if you can so changing to my wife's Japanese surname would be a bad idea. And she's the only child of her family so she doesn't want to drop her family name.

And a Swedish-Japanese double name - let's just say we're not prepared to deal with the torrent of problems we'd get from a name that both Japanese and Swedish computer systems would be unable to deal with correctly.

February 18, 2011 at 9:39 AM 
Hold your ground!!

February 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM Climate Morio said...

Purely based on the information in this blog (fake name provided, general tone of posts, etc.) i will take the liberty of assuming that your real name, Swedish Schmedish, is actually Judas Weyland.


February 19, 2011 at 6:12 PM captain krokus said...

And you work for weyland-yutani corp? I thought it was OCP?

February 20, 2011 at 4:35 AM Mr. Salaryman said...

Janne - Jepp, jepp, you can see my latest post to get more info on the whole issue that I've run into... At least "Moren" isn't that hard to katakanize.

Chris - I'm not giving him an inch, I keep signing the way I want to!

Climate Morio and Krokus - Haha, Ok, at least someone got the Aliens reference, good to know that there are some nerds out there that get my references.

February 20, 2011 at 4:46 PM Who's this guy? The old stuff Japan related Blogs I kinda endorse, check them out! These are not Japan related but well worth a visit! Dead or merely resting blogs blog search Dmegs Web Directory