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This paper studies how the names, job titles, district titles, and rank titles of the Mimana people were arranged and used in certain situations in Nihonshoki to investigate the characteristics of the names and job titles of the subjects of Mimana. The Mimana people's names and job titles can be seen in Volume 5, 6, 9, 15, 17, 19, and 22 of Nihonshoki, which consists of 30 volumes in total.　The folklores recorded in Volume 5 and 6 show names of the Mimana people which are interpreted from Japanese to Korean; and in Volume 9-19, there are several Japanese style names and also some people recorded as Omi (“臣”), Shisha (“使者”), or Kanko (“韓子”) of the Mimana Nihonfu replacing their names. Furthermore, the documents exhibit “知”, “智”, “遅”, “至”, “支”, and “岐”, those mainly used as 尊称末尾字 (an affix used in names to show respect) of the Silla people's names, and also “奚” and “甲背”, which was used as 末尾 (a suffix) in the names of the Baekje people. It can be deduced, therefore, that the people's names of Mimana had similarity to that of Silla and Baekje. “王”, “王子”, “王児”, “王妹”, and “日本府臣” seem to be used in very limited cases for the job titles of the Mimana community. Additionally, its district titles can be seen in Volume 22: “㖨部” and “習部”—both borrowed from Silla's district titles. As for the rank titles, the following words are used: “干岐” and “旱岐” in Volume 6-17; “旱岐”, “次旱岐”, “下旱岐”, “上首位”, and “二首位” in Volume 19; “大舍” and "達率" in Volume 22. Mimana basically made use of the official rank systems of Silla and Baekje for its rank titles, rather than organizing its own independent system. Until Volume 19, the names of the Mimana people are written in the form of the following order: (job title) + name + rank title . However, in Volume 19, the name forms use two types of arrangement:　name + rank title, and rank title + name. These forms again changes in Volume 22, showing district title + rank title + name in order. This kind of arrangement is similar to how Silla changed its way of documenting names.