Dictionary of Japanese Names

CJKI's Japanese Names Dictionary is a based on the CJK Dictionary Institute's comprehensive collections of millions of Japanese names and their variants -- the largest such repository in existence. Japanese names have been called the "Eighth Wonder of the World". Indeed, even native speakers often have difficulties in determining the correct pronunciation for a name written in kanji, or guessing the kanji for a name written in Latin characters. In extreme cases, one kanji name can be pronounced