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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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