Re: [tlug] Search MySQL for Japanese Names]

[steve smith <sjs@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:

Hard data to get too. When I was at Tokyo Gaidai they had access to
a full copy of the NTT directory. It would have been nice to do some
frequency measures on names, and geographical dispersions on
family names, but there was an embargo on any publications
drawing on the data. They said it was because of "privacy".

  

I don't know if this will be of interest or not, but this page:
http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/japanese_names.html#02
has a link to an xls file that has a sorted list of the top 500 japanese names ordered with number of households and romaji pronounciation.  The xls file attributes it's data to this page:
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~suzakihp/index40.html
The biglobe page is beyond my japanese ability but at the top of it is a link to 　
国会図書館ﾃﾞｰﾀﾍﾞｰｽ
which I think is some kind of data base at the National Diet Library.

Steve S.