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I'm trying to translate this sport team name:

> 東亞学園バレㅡ部

but Google keeps correcting this to:

> 東亜学園バレーᅳ部

It's obviously difficult to guess which type of horizontal line is meant, but
the second character is clearly printed as 亞, not 亜. Is it possible that the
one is used as a simplified form of the other in situations where printing
complicated characters is difficult?

_(Google Translate gives me results like "Toa Gakuen Valley Department" and
"Toa Gakuen Ballet Department" and when I accept the suggestion to change to
the second version "Toa Gakuen Volleyball Department", which is probably
right, because the Toa Gakuen school in Tokyo has a[volleyball
team](http://www.toagakuen.ac.jp/schoollife/club.html), but the writing looks
much more like the first version.)_
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translation names kyūjitai-and-shinjitai sports
Can 亞 be a simplification of 亜?
亞 is an old style character of 亜.

亞 was used conventionally.  
Plural styles were used together with the textbook before the establishment of
Chinese characters for daily use in Japan, and unification was not
accomplished about a style. Thus, about individual letters, the style
considered to be the old style is not necessarily constant. **In addition, the
old style is available in the present age and may be still used in a company
name and a person's name, a novel or comics.**
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Several points

  * the second-to-last character in 東亞学園バレㅡ部 is `U+3161 HANGUL LETTER EU` (from Korean), it should be ー `U+30FC KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK`. This is probably why Google Translate doesn't quite know what to do with it.

  * バレー部 is short for バレーボール部 and means "volleyball team/club" (by the way, _ballet_ is written バレエ)

  * 亞 is the [_kyūjitai_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABjitai) (old character form) and 亜 the _shinjitai_. 亜 has fewer strokes (and simpler strokes) than 亞

[![stroke order 亜 and
亞](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDw7T.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDw7T.png)

  * If the name is 東亞, don't let Google tell you otherwise. However, it looks like the school is called 東亜学園. Maybe that's why Google wants to correct it, maybe Google has a tendency to correct _kyūjitai_ to _shinjitai_. However, if the volleyball team writes their name 東亞学園バレー部, then being a name it shouldn't be corrected.

  * The school translates itself as 東亜学園高等学校 _Toa Gakuen High School_ , so I'd say

> 東亞学園バレー部  
>  Tōa Gakuen Volleyball Club
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Just to give some more details, I found a question on
[chiebukuro](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1052736010)
just about the difference between the two kanji 亞 and 亜.

Let me quote the answer:

> 亞は亜の旧字体ですね. 1949年に当用漢字字体表というものを 作る以前は「亞」「亜」どちらも使われていましたが
> 漢字をなるべく単純なものに統一するために 今は亜が使われています. ちなみに、どちらも名前に使うことができます.

So according to this 亞 is just an old form of 亜. Specifically, before the list
of daily-use kanji was made in 1949, they were both used. After that list, the
one that remains mostly used is 亜 (this was done in order to attempt a
simplification of the use of kanji). Notice that in the last sentence it is
said that both can be used in names though (which I believe is your case).

Finally, you can check [here](http://jigen.net/kanji/20124) for a confirmation
that 亞 is an old form of 亜:

> 備考
>
> # 1旧字は亞
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