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James Griffiths (2019-05-21). "Japan wants you to say its leader's name correctly: Abe Shinzo". CNN. Archived from the original on 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2019-05-28. Wikipedia's Manual of Style page for Japanese names states that articles should "use the form personally or professionally used by the person, if available in the English/Latin alphabet."

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