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Originally Posted by immel
濱崎歩 is her given birth name, whereas 浜崎あゆみ is her artist name. According to my teacher it's written in the Japanese law that everyone must have a 100% kanji name.
For the reference, kanji is the symbols the Japanese have borrowed from china, in many cases giving them new meaning and pronounciation.
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I never heard that law, and my cousin is Japanese. I think that 浜崎歩 is possibly her real name, not 濱崎歩.
A lot of names are hiragana-only, they don't have kanji equivalents, so I'm not so sure about this law that you're talking about.