We maintain the world's largest Japanese-English bilingual bidirectional databases of proper nouns, which are used by some of the world major IT companies for a wide variety of applications, including:

• machine translation (MT)
• information retrieval (IR)
• morphological analysis (MA)
• electronic dictionaries (ED)
• input method editors (IME)
• named entity recognition (NER)

See also our Comprehensive Database of Japanese Name Variants, which contains millions of name variants.

Currently coverage is 1.4 million entries, as shown below:

1. Japanese surnames	153,000
2. Japanese given names	400,000
3. Japanese and Western place names	200,000
4. Western personal names	50,000
5. Companies/organizations	600,000
6. Famous people	30,000

These include various data fields such as readings in hiragana and several romanization systems, semantic classification codes and frequency rankings.

The data in any desired format, such as plain text files with fields delimited by tabs, Excel, Access, html, etc. in any encoding, such as UTF-8, UCS-2, EUC, Shift-JIS. (The sample below is encoded in Shift-JIS).