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by makeitdouble 19 days ago
This also usually applies to bank accounts, they have a character limit of around 16 characters for the whole name in most banks.

Of course it's not explicited in most places as 16 chars for a standard Japanese name is an exception, and some applications will silently cut when sending to their backend.

It's as fun as you can imagine it to be.