It's possible that Shiro is a common Japanese name, like John. I don't know about Japanese much, but it seems likely.

It's also possible that one of the programmer's had a "pet" character named Shiro that they carried through the OoT-MM arc. Remember the carpenter in MM looking at the recruitment poster in Clock Town and muttering "Cowards..."? So there's that little connection going on.

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