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    7 months ago

    If you’re curious, the top 20 surnames in Japan from this site:

    • Sato
    • Suzuki
    • Takahashi
    • Tanaka
    • Ito
    • Watanabe
    • Yamamoto
    • Nakamura
    • Kato
    • Yoshida
    • Yamada
    • Sasaki
    • Yamaguchi
    • Matsumoto
    • Inoue
    • Kimura
    • Hayashi
    • Saito
    • Shimizu

    These make up roughly 18.6 million people or about 15.3% of Japan’s population. If you know a Japanese person chances are they have one of these last names, though right now there a wide variety of others, and some last names more concentrated by regions.