The young man who assassinated Abe was called Takayama, and his defense lawyer's name is also interesting, called Underwater. Why do Japanese names mostly contain place names? Some good people joke that in the past, the relationship between men and women in Japan was chaotic, and the children of Nohwato were very casual when they took their names, such as on the mountain, the surname of Yamano, Yamaguchi, etc., there is a field nearby, that is, it is called Tanaka, there is a bridge nearby, the surname is Takahashi, Ohashi, there is a river nearby, it is called Watanabe. This, of course, is a fabrication.
In ancient times, The Japanese had only a first name, not a surname. Later, the nobles had surnames, but the common people still did not. During the Meiji Restoration, in order to meet the needs of conscription and taxation, the Meiji Emperor issued a decree allowing ordinary people to have surnames, and the people were afraid of lawsuits, so they set off a wave of surname taking. However, the people's education level is not high, and they can't think of many elegant surnames, so they take local materials and appear a large number of place-name surnames mentioned above.
Of course, there are also occupation-oriented surnames, such as Mimi, Prostitute, Inoko, Hattori, Furui Maru, etc. Do some lower-ninth-rate occupations, a lot of them; People with a bit of culture choose what good words such as Asahi, Long Life, Fushou, And Shochiku as their surname. I really can't think of it, so I just deal with one at random, what is my grandson, dog breeding, ghost head, etc. There are also surnames nose hair and pig nose.
There was a university professor whose full name was Miya Ueto, and his laboratory was called the Bedtime Research Room, which sounded ridiculous.
