And now we're getting to Mr Happy's point, too. "Haruo" is not precisely a "nom de guerre", though as just noted it is also not my "official, legal" name. Rather, it is the name I have gone by in Japanese since 1967; it was as Rosu Haruo (this page shows how to type it in Chinese characters on an ordinary ASCII keyboard with no special fonts) that I completed sixth grade at Tōkyō's Rekisen Shōgakkō, and entered the first year of middle school at Bunkyō-kuritu Daisan Tyūgakkō.

(You can see some photos of me during the Japanese year here, including my 6th grade class photo, the Sunday School Christmas pageant, etc. In the middle one on the right, I'm the boy with his chin right down on the tatami.)

So it's nothing new that I have changed to recently. Rather, what happened was that I dropped the name-form "Liland", which I had used for many years, almost as long as "Haruo", as my Esperanto name. Problem is, Esperanto nouns end in -o, so "Liland" is not a well-formed Esperanto name. Haruo, on the other hand, is a perfectly good Esperanto name. So wherever I had been using "Liland" I am now trying to use "Haruo". This doesn't affect my English name, Leland, nor transliterations I use in other languages (Gaelic Líolaind, Lushootseed [& ChinUk wawa] lilEnd, Swahili Lilendi, etc.), nor other languages in which I have language-specific name-forms (like Hebrew, where I go by Afar ben Khatzi-yi, give or take an alphabet)... So, anyhow, what it boils down to is that "Haruo" as I use it here is not so much Japanese as Esperanto, and that is indeed a new thing.