Speaking about good eyes?? That must be a secret hint..Quote
Well, there is nothing too esoteric about it!
Japanese has no phonetic equivalent to the L and R consonants but has a consonant that seat somewhere between those 2 sounds. Hence even knowing perfectly well all common place names since childhood due to the lack of that phonetic register the Japanese are often at loss to write down L and R containing names in English they know assuredly in Japanese.