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Japan gets set for the Buttocks generation
By Colin Joyce
July 27, 2004
Japanese parents have been given government permission to name their children
"Buttocks" or "Prostitute" if they wish after a bizarre row over expanding the
list of officially acceptable names.
Japan's system of writing, which has evolved from ancient Chinese script, was
simplified after the Second World War when the government abolished thousands
of characters.
In recent years, however, the authorities in Tokyo have been under pressure to
reinstate obscure and archaic characters so that more interesting and original
names can be created.
Traditional ones such as Hanako, a girl's name meaning "Flower Child", and
Manabu, a boy's name meaning "Studious", have fallen out of favour.
As a result, the justice ministry proposed an additional 578 characters for
names, but included dozens that most parents might view as poor taste, such as
"Piles", "Vagina" and "Slur".
A language review panel working for the ministry had initially decided that it
was not its place to make moral judgments on characters - instead leaving it up
to parents to exercise their own common sense.
But this week, the ministry said public pressure had forced it to withdraw nine
of the most controversial characters, including "Rape", "Excrement" and
"Cancer".
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