BGN · 1930

Japanese Modified Hepburn (1962)

bgn-jpn-Hrkt-Latn-1962

Authority: bgn
Year: 1930
Source script: Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) Hrkt · 412
Destination script: Latin Latn · 215
Language: Japanese

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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shimbashi

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