BGN · 1930
Japanese Modified Hepburn (1962)
bgn-jpn-Hrkt-Latn-1962 The BGN (Modified Hepburn) System for the transliteration of Japanese has been in use by the Board on Geographic Names since about 1930 and has been extensively employed in the systematic standardization of thousands of geographic names of Japan in Romanized form.
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しんばし
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