Talk:Donald Keene

message: I question the statement: "In 1978, Keene earned a second Ph.D (Litt.D), from Cambridge."  I believe this was an honorary degree and not one that Keene earned; if I am right it should be added to the list of his eight other honorary degrees.  I realize this language was taken largely from the web page of Columbia's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and / or from some other Keene-related sources so the ambiguity is not Wikipedia's fault, but it still needs to be clarified.
In English-speaking countries Litt.D.'s are seldom earned and are almost always honorary; I have never heard of anyone else actually earning a Litt.D. from Cambridge in the past century, though I have heard of such degrees being awarded honoris causa.  I also doubt that Keene would have had either the incentive or the time to pursue a second doctorate at a university in the U.K. when he was already a senior, tenured professor in the same field at a top American university and had already received the Order of the Rising Sun.  What would a 56-year-old scholar in his position need or want with a second earned doctorate, and why would he devote so much time and energy to earning such a degree instead of pursuing his career?  For that matter, how would be satisfy Cambridge's requirements while living and working in New York?  -- 4.232.225.218 04:21, 27 September 2005‎  
:No, but I remember reading in one of his autobiographical textes that he studied Japanese in the UK for a while as a young man and how different (only old literature written in the now obsolete style) it was from the States.--Radh (talk) 13:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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message: Collapsed irrelevant speculation. This is a WP:BLP article, so randomly guessing and misrepresenting sources is highly inappropriate. The actual facts of the case are summarized in the section below. 182.249.240.29 (talk) 10:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Please take a look at Martin Fackler's New York Times article here.   See also  "Donald Keene obtains Japanese citizenship; shows off 鬼怒鳴門 as his name" in Japan Today.  --Ansei (talk) 14:15, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither article says he's changed his name. Both give Japanese renderings of his *English* name. Because of phonetic differences, you can't render his name in Japanese without changing the pronunciation. My first name in Japanese is アイザック (Kana) or Aizakku (Romanji), according to Google Translate. The reporter Jake Adelstein is ジェイク・エーデルスタイン or Jeiku ēderusutain when he writes for Japanese media. This is a re-rendering, not a name change. It's similar to the way my grandfather stopped spelling his last name Рабинович and started spelling it Rabinovitch when he moved from Russia to Canada.--Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 18:18, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  The process which involved giving up American citizenship was mirrored by a process which involved the registration of 鬼怒鳴門 among the lists of Japanese citizens.Please review the re-drafted 1st paragraph with its inline cite support.  Perhaps there is no cause for dispute in the words of the current version of the article? --Ansei (talk) 21:57, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

text:  While any person that naturalizes to Japan must chose one family and one given name composed of either kana (hiragana or katakana) or Japanese kanji (or a combination) for their legal domestic use, one's Japanese passport, which only has an alphabetic name in it and no official Japanese kana/kanji name, can have non-standard Japanese names/spellings in it if it does not cause confusion or, in the issuer's judgement, mis-identification. For example, if one naturalizes and chooses Kimbarī (キンバリー) as their legal Japanese name, they can still have a passport that says "KIMBERLY" in it. So it's /possible/ (no evidence) that Keene's Japanese passport might actually read "KEENE DONALD", because the passport name is for overseas use. His legal Japanese name, when literally transliterated to rōmaji, would not be spelled like this though. Eido INOUE | 井上エイド 00:27, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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 Donald Keene? 

message: The Japanese sources all specify this. The kanji are his gagou. He occasionally uses them as his nickname, but in the family register he is officially registered with the katakana transcription of his English name. 182.249.240.29 (talk) 10:02, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a Japanese newspaper source (Asahi Shimbin, via Web Archive) that clearly says his legal name is in katakana (キーン　ドナルド) and the ateji name is an alias (通称): http://web.archive.org/web/20120308161841/http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0308/TKY201203080224.html Eido INOUE | 井上エイド 02:04, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keene's officially registered Japanese name is キーン ドナルド; 鬼怒鳴門 is a nickname 

message: It takes a MINIMUM of 5 years as a resident to apply, let alone be awarded citizenship in Japan. How did he do it in less than a year???184.155.130.147 (talk) 02:41, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There are cases where the residency time requirement is shortened to three years or even one year depending on existing connections to Japan. Numerous sources regarding his naturalization claim that Keene would spend half a year in America and half a year in Japan, and he's always maintained a home there. Normally, "continuous residence" for naturalization is defined as being outside of Japan for no more than one hundred continuous days in a year, or no more than 150 days total of a year. Perhaps in recent years he was spending more than two thirds of his time in Japan. Eido INOUE | 井上エイド 00:14, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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