Why is the Japanese Prime Minister's name spelled “Abe”?
Written Japanese has a completely different alphabet than ours, so any Japanese speech written in English must be the sounds of that words “translated” into English.
But in English, Abe doesn’t spell his name. It spells Abraham Lincoln’s nickname. It would be the correct spelling in Spanish, but not English. So why are we not spelling it “Ahbay”?
Seriously, does no one THINK any more??