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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by devy on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:47PM (#19975428)
In a lot of U.S Government Forms, "LastName, FirstName" format is prevalent, and there should be no ambiguity without messing with the cases.

Another interesting common practice is that, famous Chinese names are already last name first - e.g. Yao Ming.

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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by lqet on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:48PM (#19976311)
> In a lot of U.S Government Forms, "LastName, FirstName" format is prevalent, and there should be no ambiguity without messing with the cases.

Same thing in Germany.

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