It's not modern Japan, but it's the setting of a sci-fi that takes place centuries in the future after nuclear fallout. So there's a bit of lost history so nothing about that needs to be crazy accurate, but the language has persevered so I want to be able to name my characters in thematically relevant ways, use the right words in the right contexts (for example, what would I call the rulers of a makeshift community that meant something like "founders" but carried the appropriate amount of "this is a form of government" weight?), maybe find play-on-words or nicknames that would make a reader who knew Japanese laugh, stuff like that.
Are there good websites to seek this kind of information on? I'd be willing to reach out to specific people by email/phone and even pay for specialized services. This'll probably be a tough endeavor but I'm willing to go the distance about it… except maybe learning the language because I feel like I'd have to learn it for several years to get to that level of knowledge and I don't know if I wanna be researching that long for one novel lol
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