Why are Japanese still using kanji?

Language Log 2025-12-05

Summary:

The Koreans and Vietnamese got rid of them within the last century, even the Chinese — for more than a century — seriously considered abolishing the sinographs, and have simplified them until they are but a pale remnant of what they used to be.  Moreover, after WWI, when — with the help of the American […]

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

12/05/2025, 21:42

Date published:

12/05/2025, 18:08