Japanese surname kanji
How do you write a Japanese surname if you don't know which kanji they prefer to use? She sent me an e-mail in English, and I want to write back to her in Japanese, but don't know which kanji I should use for Murakami.

Also, if you can answer this question, how do modern business colleagues write letter salutations/closings via e-mail?

Thanks!

Question

Japanese surname kanji
How do you write a Japanese surname if you don't know which kanji they prefer to use? She sent me an e-mail in English, and I want to write back to her in Japanese, but don't know which kanji I should use for Murakami.

Also, if you can answer this question, how do modern business colleagues write letter salutations/closings via e-mail?

Thanks!

Answer

Murakami（Romaji）は、おそらく村上（kanji）だと思います。
e-mailに、'Murakami-san'と書けば、相手（日本人）は、理解出来ます。

Probably Murakami thinks the kanji to be '村上'.
But only by a Romaji, the identification of the kanji will be difficult.
You will write it as 'Murakami-san' in e-mail. Murakami-san will understand it.

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Murakami（＝むらかみ） → 「村上」　I have never seen other than this kanji.

Greetings in business letters is as follows.

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敬具

Some kind of a business letter is as follows.

http://www.jusnet.co.jp/business/bunrei.shtml

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