Japanese Symbols - Which type of Japanese symbol should you use for your name?

Japanese symbols mainly consist of three forms; Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. First, children at school start learning how to read and write Hiragana and Katakana characters which of these two forms are considered to be part of the basic knowledge of the Japanese writing system, and relatively easy to memorize in terms of not only their shapes but also the limited numbers of each character, with compared to those of Kanji characteres. In Japan, people's names can be written in all of these three types of Japanese symbols. In everyday life, people in Japan need to write their names in either or all of these Japanese symbols depeding on what is required for a particular situation. It is also noted that names of people from foreign countries are usually written in Katakana symbols but some of them prefer to use their names translated in Japanese Kanji symbols.