Al wrote:

> Foreigners can't use kanji? Obviously i am having some difficulty
believing that.

I love it when people suggest things that happen to me do not happen.
What do you need, some scans of my documents to show you how Japanese
tell me my own Japanese names should be written?

Then perhaps in your many years in Japan you've noticed foreigners on
TV or in print have their names rendered in katakana, as when Kane
Kosugi appears, unless the person happens to be Chinese or much less
commonly, a Korean from the peninsula. Even Japanese characters in
foreign fiction or movies may get the katakana treatment.