In history, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries around China have been deeply influenced by Chinese civilization in all aspects such as writing, clothing, and architecture. Today, countries such as North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam are regarded as part of the East Asian Chinese Character Cultural Circle internationally, but Japan is a relatively special alternative among the East Asian Chinese Character Cultural Circle countries. North Korea and Vietnam, which border China, have been deeply influenced by Chinese culture in history, while Japan, which is across the sea, is more influenced by Chinese civilization, is limited to the surface. One thing that can better reflect the cultural differences between China and Japan is the surname culture of the two countries.
North Korean and Vietnamese surnames are basically the same as those of us Chinese: Kim Il-sung, Moon Jae-in , Park Chung-hee , Ho Chi Minh, Wu Won-ka ...The surnames of these people can also be found in China. In contrast, many Japanese surnames often make Chinese people feel weird and weird. In the past, I watched " Jingwumen " starring Donnie Yen , Cai Xuefu changed his name to Inuyang Xuefu after becoming a traitor. At that time, I thought the surname ", Dogkai " was compiled by the director to satirize the traitorous character Cai Xuefu. As I gradually understood Japan's history and culture, I realized that Japan really has a surname like "Inukai".
In the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games women's pole vault competition, a Japanese athlete named " My grandson Zhimei " appeared. If you have watched "Naruto", you will know that there is a character called Mishumi Hongdou. A few years ago, some tourists in my country thought it was a bathroom when they saw a room with the door sign " Yushu " in Japan, but they didn't know that the surname of this family was Yushu . Inukai, my grandson, Yu's hand washing, glans, pig thighs, pig mouth, pig nose , cow pills, cow intestines , my wife, new wife, going to bed, nose hair, buttock hair, anus, cow dung house... The Japanese surname Dictionary collected a total of 290,000 surnames. Of course, some of these are ancient surnames that are no longer commonly used today.
1983 Qunma County An old man used the most direct method to investigate and count the phone books across the country one by one to find 139,163 surnames. If these surnames are spread to more than 100 million Japanese citizens, it is equivalent to an average of about 1,000 people per surname. In contrast, China, which has a population of 1.4 billion, uses about 3,000 Chinese surname . There are only about 500 of them commonly used. There are about 230 common surnames in Korea and South Korea that use Chinese surnames, and there are only about 200 surnames in Vietnam. Nowadays, almost all surnames of China, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries can be found in " Hundred Family Surnames ".
In comparison, Japanese surnames do seem to be more alternative in countries in Chinese character cultural circles. After getting used to the alternative and weird names of Japanese people, the name of Japanese richest man Masayoshi Son seems to be Chinese enough. Masayoshi Son was once the chairman and president of SoftBank Group. It was precisely because of his $20 million investment that made Jack Ma and Alibaba . It is precisely because of this that Son Masayoshi is known to the Chinese. So why is the name of Masayoshi Son, the richest man in Japan, so it looks like a Chinese name? Although Masayoshi Son is a Japanese nationality, his ancestors are really not Japanese.
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Sun Masayoshi claims to be a descendant of Sun Wu , a famous military theorist in the Spring and Autumn Period of China and the author of " Sun Tzu's Art of War ". It is said that his family’s ancestral home is now Putian, Fujian, China. Around the Chinese , the Sun family moved from Putian to the Korean Peninsula to live. Although Masayoshi Son's ancestors did have Chinese ancestry, the Sun family had been assimilated into North Koreans for more than 1,500 years after that. If we have to say that Masayoshi Son is Chinese based on the origins of his ancestors thousands of years ago, then today I don’t know how many Koreans, Koreans, and Vietnamese have Chinese ancestry, so we should not learn from Korea on this issue.
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Sun Masayoshi is a Japanese in terms of nationality, but from nationality, he is considered a Japanese dynasty. The surnames on the Korean Peninsula are highly similar to those on China, so the Sun family naturally does not need to change their surnames for 1,500 years after living on the Korean Peninsula.So how did Masayoshi Son, a descendant of North Korean, become a Japanese citizen? This starts with the history of Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula. Speaking of On October 12, 1897, Lee's King of the Joseon Dynasty The 26th King of Lee Hee changed the country number to "Korean Empire ", but just 13 years later, Japan forced the MDKI Prime Minister Lee Wan-yong to sign the "Japan-South Korea Merger Treaty".
From then on, Japan's 35-year colonial rule history on the Korean Peninsula. During the period when Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula, the so-called "internal and fresh integration" policy was implemented: "internal" refers to the mainland of Japan, and "new" refers to the Korean Peninsula that became a Japanese colony. "Inner freshness" means that Japan wants to highly assimilate the Korean Peninsula politically, economically, and culturally with its local government. Against this backdrop, the Japanese colonial authorities relaxed restrictions on the entry of North Koreans into Japan. At this time, Sun Masayoshi's grandfather Sun Zhongqing led his family to Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan.
Under the "internal and fresh integration" policy at that time, the Japanese authorities regarded forcing Koreans to change their Japanese surnames as an important step in culturally assimilating Koreans. The Sun family, who immigrated to Japan, also changed the Japanese surname "Amamoto" under such an era. Sun Masayoshi's grandfather, Sun Zhongqing, changed his name to Ahn Ben Zhongqing, while Sun Masayoshi's father, Sun Sanxian, was once called Ahn Ben Sanxian. After Japan's defeat and surrender in 1945, the Korean Peninsula was divided into two parts: south and north with 38th parallel. On August 15, 1948, the Republic of Korea was established in the southern part of the peninsula, and on September 9, 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was established in the northern part of the peninsula.
Japan no longer recognizes Japanese nationality in Japanese Korean after the war. Korean residents in Japan either return to South Korea or North Korea or accept Japanese naturalization conditions and officially join Japanese nationality. Before the end of World War II , there were as many as 2.1 million Koreans living in Japan, and after the war, only more than 600,000 Koreans remained in Japan. The Japanese government does not want to accept this group of Koreans at all, so the conditions for naturalization are very strict. The Sun family's Japanese nationality was also deprived of during this period, so their family went to the South Korean embassy to register.
At this time, the Sun family had actually changed from Japanese nationality to Korean nationality, but the Sun family did not return to South Korea to live. They became Korean expatriates living in Japan. Since he changed from Japanese to Korean, he simply restored his ancestor's surname. August 11, 1957 Masayoshi Son was born in Japan. Masayoshi Son, born after the war, has been named Sun from the beginning. After spending his teenage years in Japan, Son entered the UC Berkeley at the age of 18. After graduation, Masayoshi Son returned to Japan to establish a software bank. In fact, Masayoshi Son was not a Japanese citizen until 1991.
It was not until 1991 that Son officially became a Japanese with his successful career. At that time, Japanese laws stipulated that naturalization of naturalization must be used to use traditional Japanese surnames. The Sun surname is not a traditional native surname in Japan, so Masayoshi Sun needs to change his surname after becoming a Japanese citizen. But Masayoshi Son didn't want to change his surname, so he thought of many ways to solve this problem. In the end, his Japanese wife helped him solve the problem. While studying in the United States, Son met his later wife Yumi Ono. The two got married in the United States before they graduated from college.
The United States and Japan have the custom of wife taking their husband's surname after marriage. After Yumi Ono married Masayoshi Son in the United States, she changed her name to Yumi Sun according to this custom. Although the Japanese government stipulates that Japan needs to change its surname when naturalized to become a Japanese, it does not stipulate that if a Japanese change his surname, he is not a Japanese. Yumi Ono is a real Japanese, so she is still a Japanese even after changing her surname. At this time, Masayoshi Sun justified his argument to the Japanese government that since there was already a Japanese surname, the Sun should be recognized as the inherent surname of Japan. Since the surname Sun is an inherent surname in Japan, what surnames Sun will change to Japan when a person with the surname Sun becomes naturalized?
At first, the Japanese government was unwilling to admit that the surname Sun was an inherent surname of Japan, but it could not withstand Son's repeated applications before approving his application in 1991.At this time, Masayoshi Son had been founding SoftBank for 10 years. Although Masayoshi Son was successful in his career in 1991. The Japanese government is naturally eager to become a high-end successful person. Since Masayoshi Son insisted on retaining his surname, the Japanese government gave him a favor on this matter. That's why Son's name looks like a Chinese.
Although Masayoshi Son's name is like a Chinese, and he himself claims that his ancestors are Chinese, his identity is still Korean-Japanese. Son Masayoshi is a Japanese in terms of nationality and Korean in terms of nationality. After all, my ancestors have moved to the Korean Peninsula for thousands of years. The reason why Masayoshi Son said that his ancestors were Chinese was nothing more than trying to get closer to China when he was developing the Chinese market. Of course, Masayoshi Son, who made Jack Ma and Alibaba, also made his own contribution to China's Internet development.
