> Albert Lunde wrote:
>
> > Could anybody clarify for me whether his name should be pronounced with 
"ou"
 
> > (as two syllables) or with long "o" ?
>
> Long "o". The combination "ou" is one of the conventional ways
> of writing long "o" in romanized Japanese. Since the more technically
> "correct" romanizations use non-ASCII characters to put a mark above
> the vowel, you see "ou" used a lot in e-mail.

The problem is, that I've also seen this name written as "Souun"...

Igor