Report On Uniform System for Spelling Foreign Geographic Names
Report On Uniform System for Spelling Foreign Geographic Names
United States Naval Oceanographic Office
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Very respectfully, G. HOLM, p. T. Director, The HYDROGRAPHER, V. 8. Navy, Washington, D. C. 75 EXHIBIT M. H. I. J. M's HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, TOKYO, May 8 y 1890. SIR : In reply to your letter of the 22d March, I beg leave to say that 1. The system used in transcribing Japanese names in notices to mari- ners into English equivalents in this office is in accordance with the Ro- manizing system. 2. It is a definite system of this office, not having in view future change. 3. I regret to say that I d...o not quite understand what you mean by your question. 3. If you want to know our system of translating Japanese names, written in Chinese characters, into English, I beg to reply that all the names of places are translated in accordance with the Romanizing sys- tem, as in notices to mariners, only with the following exceptions, which are translated into English : Bay, as in Wakasa Bay; harbor, as in Nagasaki Harbor; peninsula, as in Noto Peninsula; anchorage, as in Shimonoseki Anchorage; and strait, as in Nagato Strait.
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