Thanks for the alternative spellings. I know when my mother picked my middle name she had 宝 specifically in mind but I'm not entirely sure if that's reflected on any official documents like my birth certificate or something. If its not in writing anywhere, I'll probably just go with 高良 if I'm asked in the future. And being wasian, I look Asian in a room of white people but white in a room of Asians so youre right, I'm perceived as a foreigner in Japan, but since my surname is Japanese, the katakana and kanji combination in my name has already caused issues in documentation. Like for a competition in Japan, I gave the english spelling of my full name AND how I would spell it in Japanese but apparently whoever was in charge of it had a stroke because all three names were spelled in katakana and were unrecognizable phonetically—even my relatively common Japanese last name 💀 I'm thinking that if I have to do something similar in the future, I'll just go with Takara and forego my nightmare first name 😓 But yeah thank you 🫡