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