{"id":71990,"date":"2025-05-27T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/27\/japan-baby-name-ban-kirakira-flashy-names"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:05:57","slug":"japan-introduces-rules-to-put-outlandish-baby-names-to-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71990","title":{"rendered":"Japan introduces rules to put outlandish baby names to bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The change is designed to halt the use of <em>kirakira<\/em> (shiny or glittery) names that have proliferated among parents hoping to add a creative flourish <\/p>\n<p>Parents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> will no longer have free rein over the names they give their children, after the introduction this week of new rules on the pronunciation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/05\/japanese-children-unko-kanji-doriru-professor-poo\">kanji<\/a> characters.<\/p>\n<p>The change is designed to halt the use of <em>kirakira<\/em> (shiny or glittery) names that have proliferated among parents hoping to add a creative flourish to their children\u2019s names \u2013 creating administrative headaches for local authorities and, in some cases, inviting derision from classmates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/27\/japan-baby-name-ban-kirakira-flashy-names\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change is designed to halt the use of kirakira (shiny or glittery) names that have proliferated among parents hoping to add a creative flourish Parents in Japan will no longer have free rein over the names they give their children, after the introd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3326,77,88,757,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-baby-names","category-family","category-japan","category-parents-and-parenting","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71991,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71990\/revisions\/71991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}