Through his work of compiling dictionaries, he adopted a system for the romanization of Japanese words that became widely known as the Hepburn romanization system, or “Hebon-shiki.” ...

A subcommittee of the Subdivision on the Japanese Language of the Council for Cultural Affairs, an advisory panel, proposed using the Hepburn romanization system, in principle. The system ...

There are two major romanisation systems: Hepburn and kunrei. Some Japanese letters have different romanisations, such as “si” in kunrei, which follows the pattern of the 50 Japanese hiragana ...