Why do people say Japanese names wrong?

[DangerDang]

Well, if they say Wakana anywhere, then we know that they're talking about Wakana. Of course, no one will switch the names around for American people, but it doesn't matter if their names are typed like they're said in Japan.
That's just being elitist; people in Japan are by no stretch of the mind better than people in America.

 

[KingRanger]

That's just being elitist; people in Japan are by no stretch of the mind better than people in America.

No one is better than anyone else... Well unless you are talking about Glen Beck. Then everyone is.

 

[Kaji Motomiya]

I guess it just goes by how it sounds. Take actor "Koji Seto"...or "Seto Koji." Honestly, it's hard to tell with that guy because both names can pass off for given names.

A name like 'Takeru Satoh" rolls right off the bat because Takeru is his given name.

D-Addicts actually use the Japanese way of saying the name, surname first, then given name.

Now you take a name like "Tendou Souji," and everyone calls him "Tendou." Actually, westernized, it'd be "Souji Tendou." Same with "Kenzaki Kazumi"; everyone calls him "Kenzaki".

Honestly, it just depends on how the media portrays them, and how it influences the viewers. After that, stating their whole name depends on what name they know them by mostly.

So because Wakana is often said more than anything else, people would say "Wakana Sonozaki" because the use of her most stated name is more common than her surname.

 

[DangerDang]

Well, that's what I meant, but yeah, it wasn't worded very well. I meant to say Japan isn't better than America, nor vice-versa. Except when it comes to our debt, but that's off-topic.