QUOTE(tankerbell12345 @ Aug 19 2013, 12:58 AM)
How do u explain that his name was in hokkien ???? U wana tell me he watched television or learned it from the internet ??? There should be an entourage from mainland that transferred the language, culture and technological knowledge to japan.
So Jay Chou, Jackie Chan must be English or Americans?
I studied Japanese before. I can briefly explain:
When the Japanese imported Chinese characters (kanji), they also imported the pronunciations.
Every kanji has two types of pronunciation - on (Chinese pronunciation) & kun (original Japanese pronunciation)
example:
新
on pronunciation is shin;
kun pronunciation is atarashi
新幹線 Shinkansen (New Trunk Line) - all 3 kanjis in on pronunciation
Kono kuruma wa atarashii desu (This car is new) - 'new' in kun pronunciation
This is how Chinese pronunciation sipped into Japanese. But Japanese language is completely different from Chinese.