' Hepburn-style Roman letters ') is the main system of romanization for the Japanese language. The system was originally published in 1867 by American Christian missionary and physician James Curtis Hepburn as the standard in the first edition of his Japanese–English dictionary.

Hepburn romanization (Japanese: ヘボン式ローマ字, Hepburn: Hebon-shiki Rōmaji, 'Hepburn-type Roman letters') is a system of Japanese romanization. It uses the Latin alphabet . Many people from countries other than Japan use Hepburn romanization to help learn how to spell Japanese in the Latin alphabet.

Hepburn romanization generally follows English phonology with Romance vowels. It is an intuitive method of showing Anglophones the pronunciation of a word in Japanese. It was standardized in the United States as American National Standard System for the Romanization of Japanese (Modified Hepburn) , but that status was abolished on October 6, 1994.

Hepburn romanization, known as Hebon-Shiki (ヘボン式) in Japanese, is a way to write Japanese using the roman alphabet. It is named after an American missionary called James Curtis Hepburn who used it in the third edition of his Japanese to English dictionary, published in 1886.

Hepburn romanization (ヘボン式ローマ字, Hebon-shiki Rōmaji, 'Hepburn-type Roman letters') is a system for the romanization of Japanese that uses the Latin alphabet to write the Japanese language.

By the 20th century, there were a number of different romanisation systems in use, including the Nippon, Kunrei and Hepburn systems. Hepburn system (ヘボン式/hebon-shiki) The Hepburn system was devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), an American missionary from Philadelphia who arrived in Japan in 1859 and compiled the first modern ...

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The Hepburn romanization system (ヘボン式ローマ字, Hebon-shiki Rōmaji?) is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese–English dictionary, published in 1887.

James Curtis Hepburn (/ ˈ h ɛ p b ər n /; March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese–English dictionary.

Hepburn-style Roman letters) යනු ජපන් වදන් රෝම අකුරුවලි ලිවීමට භාවිතා වන ක්‍රමවේදය කි. 1867 දී ඇමෙරිකානු මිෂනාරි වරයෙකු වූ James Curtis Hepburn විසින් හඳුන්වා දෙන ...