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Japanese-English Dictionary of Proper Nouns

We maintain the world's largest Japanese-English bilingual bidirectional databases of proper nouns. These are used by some of the world major IT companies for a wide variety of applications, including:

• machine translation (MT)
• information retrieval (IR)
• morphological analysis (MA)
• electronic dictionaries (ED)
• input method editors (IME)
• named entity recognition (NER)

See also our Comprehensive Database of Japanese Name Variants, which contains millions of name variants.

Coverage

Currently coverage is 1.4 million entries, as shown below:

Type Quantity Japanese surnames 153,000 Japanese given names 400,000 Japanese and Western place names 200,000 Western personal names 50,000 Companies/organizations 600,000 Famous people 30,000

These include various attributes such as readings in hiragana and several romanization systems, semantic classification codes and frequency rankings.

Field Description

Field Name Description ID Preceded by the following prefixes: S Surname G Given name P Place name Rank Relative frequency ranking based on occurrences in various sources. Type The main type codes are shown below. For a more detailed list, click here. F Female given name G Given name (first name, male or female) M Male given name S Surname Name Japanese name in kanji/kana Reading Reading in hiragana English English equivalent based on Hepburn romanization. Available in eight different romanization systems described at Japanese name variants.