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For a useful text on Japanese names (personal, place and otherwise) I would
recommend PG O'Neill's Japanses names, published by Weatherhill. I used it when
I was working in a board of education in Japan and I was never stumped. The
only problem is that some first names have two or more readings, all eqully
valid. If you have a way and the money, plus a penchant for electronic stuff,
they have a lot of electronic address books in Japan that you can input what
you think is the correct reading and see if you were right. I don't know about
the new wordtank having a proper name list, but i heard that they wanted to add
a card with that info on it.
Joe Tomei, University of Oregon