☆FOR JAPANESE LEARNERS☆コミュのquestion on romaji transliteration

Japan's first and only European born Diet member Marutei Tsurunen.Can someone kindly explain why romanization of his surname became Tsurunen not remained as actual spelling Turunen ? Why in Japanese,you need to add the " s " ?

Katakan: ツルネン・マルテイ
Kanji: 弦念丸呈

Thanks in advance ....

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[5] mixiユーザー 04月29日 01:08

There is no 'actual' way of spelling a Japanese word using Roman characters, transliterations are there merely as a convenience for foreigners. Several systems exist, of which Hepburn is the most commonly used, but it's not uncommon to see ti, tu etc rather than chi, tsu. I seem to recall it was used in some of the textbooks I used in Japanese schools.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaji

[6] mixiユーザー 04月29日 01:32

No foreign characters are allowed to make registration of Japanese national. Hence, foreign names must be transcribed in Japanese characters, using kana and kanji.

As far as the naturalized ex-Lutheran missionary chose his name to be Japanized enough, it is not strange that he would have taken "つ tsu" instead of "とぅ　tu” for his Japanese name.

I guess what he chose is not a transliteration of his Finnish name, written in Hepburn romanization.
He took up a Japanese name, based on his original Finnish name.

Because his "official name" which is duly shown on his "japanese passport" (as he is now a Japanese national) is written according to his resident registration filed at the local authories in **Japanese language**, his name in romanization is subsequently an exact representation of his Japanese name in Japanese phonological rules --- not とぅ、but つ。

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