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  2. Ueda (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ueda (上田 or 植田), romanized as Uyeda [1] in an old version of Hepburn romanization, is the 60th most common Japanese surname. [2] Notable people with the surname include: Ai Ueda (上田藍, born 1983), professional triathlete; Akinari Ueda (1734–1809), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet; Akira Ueda (上田 晃, born 1970), video ...

  3. Lists of East Asian surnames - Wikipedia

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    Lists of East Asian surnames include common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean surnames, or family names. List of common Chinese surnames; List of common Japanese surnames;

  4. Korean name - Wikipedia

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    By 1944, about 84% of the population had registered Japanese surnames. [71] Sōshi (Japanese) means the creation of a Japanese surname (shi, Korean ssi), distinct from a Korean surname or seong (Japanese sei). Japanese surnames represent the families they belong to and can be changed by marriage and other procedures, while Korean surnames ...

  5. Sano (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Naoki Sano, Japanese wrestler; Natsume Sano (born 1985), Japanese actress; Nobuyoshi Sano (born 1969), Japanese musician; Rihei Sano (1912–1992), Japanese footballer; Roy I. Sano (born 1931), Japanese-American bishop; Seki Sano (1905–1966) was a Japanese actor; Shirō Sano (born 1955), Japanese actor; Tadayoshi Sano (1889–1945), Japanese ...

  6. List of Korean surnames - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee (이) and Park (박). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.

  7. Lists of most common surnames - Wikipedia

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    Lists of the most common surnames by continent: Lists of most common surnames in African countries; Lists of most common surnames in Asian countries; Lists of most common surnames in European countries; Lists of most common surnames in North American countries; Lists of most common surnames in Oceanian countries

  8. Lin (surname) - Wikipedia

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    It is listed 147th on the Hundred Family Surnames. Within mainland China, it is currently the 18th most common surname. In Japan, the character 林 is also used but goes by the pronunciation Hayashi, which is the 19th most common surname in Japan.

  9. List of Yakuza syndicates - Wikipedia

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    Sakurai is the surname of the boss, sōke means all family or head family and rengō-kai means federation. It disappeared. Kokusui-kai: 國粹会 Tokyo: 1994–2005 Kokusui means Japanese nationalism. It was joined to the Yamaguchi-gumi VI. Nakano-kai: 中野会 Osaka: 1999–2005 It was split from Yamaguchi-gumi in 1997. Nakano is the surname ...