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Is the first supposed invention of romaji in 1548 by a Japanese Catholic called Yajiro fact or fiction?
Any research I try leads back to sites I don't know if I can trust, because most of them are random fact articles. I've found an official site that has some of the history, but not this specific fact. ...
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When did LOC adopt modified Hepburn?
If I look in Google Ngrams, I see that the transliteration "honbu", meaning HQ, basically didn't exist until 1964. But it didn't surpass "hombu" until 1976. I believe Modified Hepburn was introduced ...
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