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Latest comment: 11 months ago by WhisperToMe in topic Name Order

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Any reason this article is titled Kono Taeko instead of Taeko Kono? I thought modern-day Japanese biographic articles went with Given Name - Family Name order. --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 03:02, 10 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

-- true, but in English we give first name, then Last, so it's less confusing for English speakers this way, I suppose.

Academic articles tend to use Japanese order, especially in the Asian studies field. Popular press articles tend to use western order. If the sourcing is all from academia, the source balance is likely to go to Asian order.
If any of her works are published in English, it will likely be in Western order, and so the source balance may change as popular press reviewers would write about it.
WhisperToMe (talk) 01:55, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
The cover of Toddler Hunting uses Western order. I'll have to see what most reviews use? WhisperToMe (talk) 05:35, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Popular press reviews in the 2020s like this and like this are using Western order, and the latest edition of the book cover uses Western order. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:21, 26 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

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"Her main themes in ‘Toddler Hunting’: an obsession with young boys, a hatred of girls, a tendency towards sadomasochism. Eroticism can be seen as a central motif in her works. Nevertheless, her protagonists' affinity for sadomasochism may not be an end in of itself; it is one method her female protagonists use to express their desire for self-negation over procreation (see the works of Julia Kristeva, particularly Powers of Horror for information on this phenomenon). Her most recent works tend to be more understated, perhaps due to her age, perhaps feeling less of a need to shock and more a desire to explain the theme of humanity from a woman's perspective, which has remained throughout all of her works to this day." Awadewit (talk) 04:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply