Reading Between the Lines by Helen Betts by Sony Forums Challenges

Reading Between the Lines
by Helen Betts


23-MAR-2003	Helen Betts

This is a Ginowan City marker with the name of my neighborhood, Kakazu, written on it.

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Sony Forums Challenges		24-Mar-2003 01:10
Hi Howard, yes you're right, it's just like Hokkaido. Reading the names of Okinawan towns (as well as people's names) can be extremely frustrating, even for mainland Japanese. A great example is a town that is written with the kanji for "north" and "valley," so you would think it should be called "Kita Tani." But it is actually pronounced "Chatan." Go figure! Helen

Sony Forums Challenges		23-Mar-2003 23:29
Kakazu is such an Okinawan name... I never would have figured in out by looking. It's like those names of small towns up in Hokkaido where they just threw some kanji onto Ainu names. --Howard

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