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Hepburn romanization
The is named after
James Curtis Hepburn
, who used it to
transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet
in the third edition of his Japanese–English
dictionary
, published in 1887. The system was originally proposed by the in 1885. The revised edition by Romaji-Hirome-kai in 1908 is called and this system has been used as the Hepburn system in Japan traditionally.
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