[LMB] List as research assistant

[David Bernat]

Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:

> OK --
> 
>     I need a big bag of assorted names, possible for a planet, cities, 
> persons, and corporations, in a sort of faux-Japanese.  Authentic 
> back-translations welcome, avoidance of names too-famous needed.  (Sony 
> and Toyota are right out.)   We may assume a mixed lot of original 
> colonists and a deal of language blending, bending, and adulteration -- 
> think Hawaii.

How faux-Japanese do you want to take it?

Shimoyama (personal name, corporate name)
Shimokawa (personal name, corporate name)
Shinoyama (personal name, corporate name)
Shinokawa (personal name, corporate name)

>      Suggestions?  What, ferex, would "New Hope" be in Japanese?

Shinkibou.