Formatting biblatex citation to handle non-latin (Japanese) author names

Question

I am trying to customize biblatex (with biber as backend) so as to handle Japanese authors' names in an elegant way.

Lets consider the following bibtex entry:

@article{HondaSuzuki2014,
    author = {本田, 太郎 and 鈴木, 次郎},
    journal = {日本語で書かれたジャーナル},
    number = {1},
    pages = {3--23},
    title = {日本語のタイトル},
    volume = {9},
    year = {2014}
}

The authors are Honda and Suzuki. I would like the citation commands to produce the following outputs:

• citet: blablabla Honda and Suzuki (本田，鈴木 2014) blablabla
• citep: blablabla (本田，鈴木 2014) blablabla

I understand that I should put the transcription of the authors' names (i.e. Honda and Suzuki) in a field... but which field? Then what should I do to get the desired output? Finally, I want to keep the citations of authors in latin characters the way they are. That is:

• citet: blablabla Smith and Winston (2014) blablabla
• citep: blablabla (Smith and Winston 2014) blablabla

Do I need 4 different citation commands? In addition to citet and citep Something like citetj (citet for Japanese names) and citepj (citep for Japanese names)?

Any help (advice, code, reference to a good tutorial) will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Probably this thread will help to solve part of your problem how-to-create-multilingual-english-japanese-bibliographies-with-biblatex, see the answer by PLK (almost at the bottom of the page.)

Your bibliography should be structured in following manner:

    @article{HondaSuzuki2014,
    LANGID = {japanese}
    author = {本田, 太郎 and 鈴木, 次郎},
    author_romanised = {}
    journal = {日本語で書かれたジャーナル},
    journal_romanised = {}
    number = {1},
    pages = {3--23},
    title = {日本語のタイトル},
    title_romanised = {},
    volume = {9},
    year = {2014}
}

Regarding \cite command, can not help.