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NikkiAUS · 31 Dec 2015

Hello,

I remember reading in a textbook that occupations/position should be listed at the end of a person's name and not before.

For example, if I want to give the name of a detective - たんてい I would write the surname and then the title. So if I wanted to write....say Detective Dog (my son loves him!) his name would translate to いぬ-たんてい. Is that right? or because that is an animal and not a human do I need to use another word as well? And do you always include the hyphen in between?

mdchachi · 2 Jan 2016

That's basically true. Sensei, Kacho, Bucho, etc. When writing in Japanese you don't need any hyphens. In romaji probably would be better to include a hyphen e.g. Tanaka-Sensei.
However a similarly titled book does it this way:
Sherlock Bones (探偵犬シャードック : Tanteiken Shādokku), also known as Sherdock the Detective Dog or Tanteiken Sherdock in Japan.
In this case they are using detective as a type of dog rather than a title as in Detective Dog Sherdock.

Toritoribe · 4 Jan 2016

Not all titles are put after the name, as already explained. I would use いぬのたんてい.

NikkiAUS · 9 Jan 2016

mdchachi said:
That's basically true. Sensei, Kacho, Bucho, etc. When writing in Japanese you don't need any hyphens. In romaji probably would be better to include a hyphen e.g. Tanaka-Sensei.
However a similarly titled book does it this way:
Sherlock Bones (探偵犬シャードック : Tanteiken Shādokku), also known as Sherdock the Detective Dog or Tanteiken Sherdock in Japan.
In this case they are using detective as a type of dog rather than a title as in Detective Dog Sherdock.

Thank you for you help.

NikkiAUS · 9 Jan 2016

Toritoribe said:
Not all titles are put after the name, as already explained. I would use いぬのたんてい.

I can see how 'no' works there. Thank you

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