This game properly used the surname-firstname order for Japanese figures mentioned in the historical notes and sword descriptions (eg. Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu, Miyamoto Musashi)

AI card illustrations aside, this game properly used the surname-firstname order for Japanese historical figures from the Warring States era (eg. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kuroda Kanbei)

Used firstname-surname order for Japanese figures despite taking place in the historical Warring States era (eg. Takesada Inoue instead of Inoue Takesada)

This game properly used the surname-firstname order for Japanese historical figures in the Warring States era (eg. Honda Tadakatsu, Yamagata Masakage)

This game takes place right on Meiji Restoration (1868), yet there is inconsistency in name order between last-first (Sugiyama Kenjiro, Kimura Hikaru) and first-last (Toro Kobayashi, Hiraizumi Ishida)

The female Japanese representative leader in this game is named with firstname-surname order (Shikibu Murasaki instead of Murasaki Shikibu)

The All Under Heaven expansion adds Japan, and the game properly uses the surname-firstname order for Japanese figures in 9th-15th centuries (eg. Fujiwara [no] Yorimichi)

This game properly used the surname-firstname order for figures in feudal-era Japan (eg. Takeda Nobumitsu)

Recent in-dev screenshots still show some inconsistencies in the name order for historical Japanese figures between improper first-last (Takauji Ashikaga) and proper last-first (Ashikaga Takauji)

This game properly used the surname-firstname order for historical Warring States-era figures (eg. Oda Nobunaga)