I'm a Chinese, and my name is 彭宏森. But I still confuse how to make it into a
Japanese name version. So I was wondering how do I covert my name and how do I
read it in Japanese. My Chinese name is pronounced as "Peng Hong Sen" in
English. The "彭/Peng" is my last name, and "宏森/Hong Sen" is my personal name.
Please do me a favor.
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Can I use my Chinese name as my Japanese name version?
That will depend on your intentions. Without additional qualifications, your
name would be read ホウ・コウシン in Japanese, as these are the only on-readings of
the corresponding characters that are current in Japan. If that is okay with
you, no additional effort is needed. (Note though that 彭 is not a frequent
character in Japan, and you cannot be sure that an arbitrary Japanese person
will be able to decipher it. They might attempt to read it as 膨, which is
frequent, but that would lead to a technically incorrect ボウ.)

It is perfectly acceptable to give furigana that demands an approximation of
Chinese reading. In this case, [彭]{ポン}[宏]{ホン}[森]{セン} would be the correct
rendering of the Mandarin reading in Japanese (I fould it out by checking the
names of other people having these characters in names).

Alternatively, if there is a desire to turn the name into a Japanese-sounding
pseudonym, without changing the characters, both 宏 and 森 are popular elements
in names, and can theoretically be combine into a name read, probably, ひろもり.
(Such a name can plausibly exist, though in Japan it sounds more like a
surname.)
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