For the benefit of other readers, this is (to my deep chagrin) just a coincidence. Some other fun false friends (i.e. w/ no actual etymological connection), some sillier than others:

- そう sō, "so"

- 名前 namae, "name"

- 乱暴 rambō, "violence"

- 被る kaburu, "cover"

- 孫 son, "descendant"

- 銭 sen, "one hundredth of a yen" (sounds similar to "cent")

- 買 (meaning "buy") can be read as bai

- はず hazu, "has to"

- 鈴 rin, "bell" (sounds similar to "ring")

- おい oi, "oi"

- 陰気 inki, "gloomy" (sounds similar to "inky")

And just for fun, one from Old Japanese:

- 女 womina, "woman"