How I did it: I found a website that let's you download a file (for a price, of course) with your name in Japanese. Although researching this (as I can't remember where I got it from), I have found a name translator dictionary. You just type in your name and press 'translate' and it'll give you the characters needed, for free :)It also gives you a handy pronounciation of your name (how it would be said in Japanese), which is also pretty cool. Read how I did it…
How I did it: I was taking Japanese anyway, and the first thing we did was learn hiragana and katakana, the phonetic writing systems. Hiragana is used for native words and katakana is used for foreign words, including names, or emphasis. There are only 44 written phonemes from 'a' to 'n', so it really doesn't take long to become familiar with them.Then we had to learn how words are 'Japanized' to fit their pronunciation scheme. Japanese has no 'si' or … Read how I did it…
