Friday, April 17, 2009

Ogawa is a Common Last Name in Japan

According to Wikipedia and a study done on all the Japanese Yellow Pages for the past three years, my last name "Ogawa" is the 31st most common surname or last name in Japan. The top ten are:

  • Sato
  • Suzuki
  • Takahashi
  • Tanaka
  • Watanabe
  • Ito
  • Yamamoto
  • Nakamura
  • Kobayashi
  • obayashi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames

BTW, the 31st most popular last name in the United States is Young based on the 2000 U.S. Census. Here is the top ten last names in the United States.
Smith
  • Johnson
  • Williams
  • Brown
  • Jones
  • Miller
  • Davis
  • Garcia
  • Rodriguez
  • Wilson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames#United_States

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Asian Facial Features

Here is a link to a site about Asians and facial features.

http://cut.awardspace.info/2008/08/asian-facial-features-by-country.html

Website: Test, can you tell the difference?

Here is a site with Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Filipino and Indonesian men and women. Can you tell the difference?

AsianIQ.com
http://www.asianiq.com/

How To Tell One Asian From The Other

Here's a video from some Fresno State University students on how to tell one Asian from the Other. There is a horrible stereotype that "all Asians look alike".