May I ask what this Japanese surname means...

Inukai (いぬかい)---This surname is not an insult. It is an authentic Japanese surname. "Inuyasu" is the noun form of "Inu をraise う"

, "Inu" (いぬ) means dog, "Inuyasu" (かう) means raising , so it means raising a dog. In ancient times, Japan used to refer to each other by occupation. When they saw a person raising a dog, they would call him "Inukai", so "Inukai" became a Japanese surname.

Morning Post News Japan is a small and medium-sized country in terms of land and population, but its surnames are one of the largest in the world. Today, there are as many as 110,000 surnames in use, and there are people of the same race. The strange phenomenon of having different surnames. This is because the history of Japanese surnames is too short - it has only been more than a hundred years since the "Family Registration Law" was promulgated in 1898.

In ancient Japan, everyone from the emperor to the "untouchables" had names. After the "Meiji Restoration" in 1868, the government felt that it was too difficult to manage citizens without surnames, so while abolishing the hierarchy, it gave citizens the right to "use surnames." However, people have become accustomed to having no surnames for generations, so very few responded. It was not until the eighth year of Meiji (1875), when the government strictly ordered that "all citizens must have a surname" that people panicked and started to "take surnames" one after another: those who lived outside the village were surnamed "Murano", and those who lived in valleys were surnamed "Yamaguchi" etc.; those who come from a scholarly family and have a good fortune will take the surnames of "Jingxiang", "Jimei", "Jiujiu", etc.; those who admire ancient times and warriors will take the surnames of ancient warriors; those who engage in various professions will take the surnames of their professions. Those who still lack understanding of the meaning of "surname" will leave it to the words of relevant civil servants, resulting in strange and weird surnames such as "Guitou", "Quanyang", "Fat Tiger" and "Xiao Fu" . At this time, fathers and sons and brothers were scattered across the country. In a hurry, they chose their own surnames without communicating through communication. Some people who were not related by blood, by chance, accidentally took the same surnames because of "fate".