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All this time, we’ve been calling Japan’s prime minister the wrong name

NEWS: The name Western media use when referring to Japan's PM could be set for an overhaul.

Scott Morrison and Shinzo Abe have talked up a series of agreements on infrastructure funding. Source: AAP

นายสกอตต์ มอร์ริสัน และนายชินโซ อาเบะ สนทนาเพื่อชูข้อตกลงต่างๆ เกี่ยวกับงบสนับสนุนโครงสร้างพื้นฐาน Source: Image source: AAP

Shinzo Abe may be referred to as "Abe Shinzo", if foreign media outlets follow a request to be lodged by the Japanese government.

There are reports Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono plans to ask overseas media outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as per the tradition in the country.

You can read the full version of this story in English on SBS News here.


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By Phillippa Carisbrooke

Presented by Tanu Attajarusit

Source: SBS News, AAP




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