Were Japanese names ever anglicised?


Nowadays, Japanese people usually keep their names as is, except using the
Latin alphabet, and having their given name before their surname, when they're
in English-speaking countries.

By contrast, many immigrants into English-speaking countries, even those from
countries with European languages, had their names
[Anglicised](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisation_of_names#Immigration_to_English-
speaking_countries), and it still goes on today, at least with native speakers
of Chinese.

Did Japanese people, or their descendants, use to anglicise their names,
especially before, during or soon after WWII?




According to this list, yes (but not uniformly. And obviously, it can't be
reliably said to represent a proportional sampling).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Americans>

But it is worth noting that a lot of the non-Japanese name holders were alive
during/after WWII.

Anecdotally, some of my friends (2nd & 3rd-generation Canadians of Japanese
descent) have Japanese names, but with an English middle name. I don't know
how wide-spread that naming practice is, but in my experience, it's not
uncommon.

