Shenmue Dojo

That's right, they both say their names with the family name first (Korea does it too, and maybe most of the countries in that area). The confusion when switching to English happens everywhere, even at the Olympics I couldn't tell if they had got their names the wrong way around for English speakers. Football too especially with the South Korean players making their names around the world.

I noticed a similar a thing in Yakuza 3, you hear the Japanese way of saying it when they speak but on the subtitles it was switched around 95% of the time for some reason not every translation was flipped around, and I think I heard Kazuma say it the opposite way than usual once for some reason.

Is it 3 or 4 where the CIA get involved? That might have confused the translators, or it's purely a clear case of different people working on different parts of the script.

MiTT3NZ wrote:Personally, I reckon that you can say Far Eastern names either way around as you see fit due to cultural differences.

I'm on the side of a "who the target audience is" style of thinking. If it's for countries who use the First Name-Family Name convention, all names should follow it for ease of understanding. I know in Japan there are a whole set of conventions for non-Japanese words and by extension I assume names so the culture gap has been bridged with regards to which way the names go. I don't know if this same understanding is there in other far-Eastern countries.

Yeah it's Yakuza 3, I have not played the 4th yet.

Spokane wrote:Its just the way they speak differently, Japanese people say the last name first and in China its reverse.

Family name comes first both in Japan and China. Apparently, they changed the order for the western gamers' sake, while the order stays the same in the Japanese version.