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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by firethief on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:37PM (#19972504)
How is it non-standard?
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by mrob on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:52PM (#19972685)
I've never seen it used in mainstream news or literature, only in software and scientific papers, and not always then. I just searched for '.jp' in the Linux kernel changelog and none of the Japanese contributors I found wrote their names like that.
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by xxpor on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:58PM (#19972781)
INADA Naoki, a Python contributor, signs their emails at least in the style.
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:56PM (#19974227)
This is the first I've heard of it. It's certainly not common in a general context.
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