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>>97
It's just the way the names work. There isn't any obvious system. A given combination of characters could be read any number of ways. I recall one character in something I was reading, as a joke, had his characters as 天馬 which was read as ぺがさす. Just know the common ones like 太郎, 渡辺, 佐藤, etc, and guess with the rest. That's what everyone else does. It's the reason why one of the most important parts of a self-introduction for a Japanese person is showing not just the kanji used but also the reading for your name.