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Related question: [How do you write someone's name if you don't know what
kanji to use?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/5313/how-do-you-
write-someones-name-if-you-dont-know-what-kanji-to-use) , but that's for the
name of a non-notable person.

I'd like to know the Japanese name of someone who's been in the news of
English-language media (Masaaki Imaeda). He doesn't have an English-language
Wikipedia article yet, so I can't just look him up and see what the Japanese
language edition has as his name.

I tried googling "まさあき いまえだ シドニー", but that didn't seem to get many useful
results. Even "今枝正明 シドニー" mainly gave results in Chinese.

(I'm assuming that he's been covered in Japanese-language media, which may not
be the case)

He was born in Japan and came to Australia in
[1973](http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/slum-lord-fined-215000-after-fire-guts-
illegal-housing-setup-in-alexandria-20170310-guv3pu.html), and was born in
[1951 or 1950](http://www.news.com.au/national/crime/photographs-reveal-for-
the-first-time-the-secret-sex-lair-where-slumlord-pervert-masaaki-imaeda-
spied-on-tenants/news-story/31cfd10f20e11412f2f5ae29cc3dfb48), so he would
have been a young adult when he came to Australia.
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How do I find out the written form of a notable person given their name's pronunciation?
If that person is really
[notable](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E7%89%B9%E7%AD%86%E6%80%A7_\(%E4%BA%BA%E7%89%A9\))
enough in Japanese, the hiragana name should always be in his/her article on
Japanese Wikipedia, so you should be able to find the kanji name with his/her
hiragana name by using Google or Wikipedia search. [Wikipedia:スタイルマニュアル
(人物伝)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB_\(%E4%BA%BA%E7%89%A9%E4%BC%9D\)#.E5.90.8D.E5.89.8D.E3.81.A8.E8.AA.AD.E3.81.BF.E4.BB.AE.E5.90.8D)
says:

> 名前の直後に括弧（）をつけ、最初に読み仮名を記載してください。

Example:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wFX9h.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wFX9h.png)

If that person is not that notable, practically, all you can do is make random
guesses on kanji and keep googling until you hit something.
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