Talk:Yoko Taro
Latest comment: 11 months ago by 2A00:A041:1D5F:E000:E43E:8D2:87B6:FFBA in topic Isn't his name should be written backwards?
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Isn't his name should be written backwards?
editHi!
I think his name in the brackets should be written as Tarō Yokoo, because that's that 横尾 太郎 translates to and Japanese family names come first (just like in Hungary). But I'm afraid to change it because I've seen comments in the source code people being strict about names. The same was applied to Hideo Kojima, Shigeru Mijamoto, Goichi Suda, Shinji Mikami and Akira Yamaoka before so I think it should be done here as well.
Objections?
Thanks! -Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squall85 (talk • contribs) 07:00, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
His family name is Yoko, so the order is correct. Since he is mostly credited as "YOKO TARO" in his games, the japanese style of writing his name was adopted by western fans. 2A04:4540:6C16:B400:39C6:8D14:5A3F:EF51 (talk) 11:51, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- you should be consistent with the rest of Wikipedia with how you write names. I only went to this talk page because I was wondering for myself whether yoko is his first or last name, and figured it was his last name because "wikipedia has his name like that, and Wikipedia always writes Japanese names in the western style and specifies afterwards the Japanese style". I don't know if that's an actual Wikipedia guideline but either way, it's clearly a norm so not following it is more confusing than anything in my opinion. 2A00:A041:1D5F:E000:E43E:8D2:87B6:FFBA (talk) 12:33, 7 July 2025 (UTC)