Re: [tlug] Search MySQL for Japanese Names]

["Prasad Bakre" <b-prasad@example.com>]

Hi Steve,

 

Sorry to respond in between.

I have meagre technical knowledge but I thought I can contribute a bit on the Japanese language front.

 

>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 　
>国会図書館データベース
>which I think is some kind of data base at the National Diet Library.
The database is indeed of the National Diet Library (Japan Database Navigation Service).

 

The biglobe page has following functions in Japanese:

1. Surname Search (Can search by Kanji (any Kanji in the name) or Katakana)

2. Exceptional Kanji Search (Kanji out of JIS Level 1 and 2)

3. Surname Questionnaire and Results

4. Message Board

5. Kanji Rankings (From No.1 to 10k)

6. Introduction to Japanese Surnames

7. Members/Surname Search

 

Guess you were able to figure out some things already.

Just thought of helping a bit.

Hope I am not disturbing the thread.

 

Regards,

Prasad

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From: tlug-bounces@example.com [mailto:tlug-bounces@example.com On Behalf Of steve smith
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:48 PM
To: jimbreen@example.com; Tokyo Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [tlug] Search MySQL for Japanese Names]

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 　
国会図書館データベース
which I think is some kind of data base at the National Diet Library.

Steve S.