Hepburn romanisation ヘボン式ローマ字

Hebon-shiki rōmaji · from English (after James Curtis Hepburn)

What is Hepburn romanisation?

Hepburn is the most widely used system for writing Japanese in Latin letters, following English spelling for consonants and macrons for long vowels.

It is named after American missionary James Curtis Hepburn, whose 1867 Japanese-English dictionary popularised it. Hepburn writes し as shi and ふ as fu, unlike the Japanese government's Kunrei-shiki (si, hu). Macrons mark long vowels, though signs and passports often drop them.

Examples

東京 Tōkyō; し shi (Kunrei si); ふじ Fuji (Kunrei Huzi); 新聞 shinbun (newspaper)

Kungfucius says: Hepburn: the reason you can type sushi instead of susi.