Unambiguous contact details for Japanese people
What are some good ways of getting unambiguous (yet not too intrusive) contact details for Japanese people you meet on your travels?
Apparently, Japanese people don't have a middle name, and I've found that googling or Facebooking for someone based on their first and surname provides many different people. Email isn't bad, but a single character mistake is catastrophic, and as many people don't publish emails on the web, you can't google for an email address and have google tell you "Did you mean: X?"
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I may be missing something obvious, but why not just ask them? I'm even inclined to suspect that, if they didn't share their contact details when you parted ways, they aren't necessarily that keen on staying in touch...
Also, Facebook isn't that popular in Japan, although it has gone a long way in closing the gap with local alternative Mixi in the last year.
2016 update: Mixi is dead (or at least comatose), Facebook is still kinda struggling, the current champion is Line.
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