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SO FUCKING CLOSE TO A KANJI FREE WORLD.

>In April, 1946, Naoya Shiga published an article in the magazine Kaizō titled kokugo mondai (国語問題 the national language problem?), which suggested that the Japanese language should be eradicated in favour of French, which he considered to be the most beautiful language in the world. On 12 November, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper published an editorial concerning the abolition of kanji, and on 31 March, the first American Education Delegation arrived in Japan at the invitation of the SCAP and issued its first report. The report pointed out the difficulties concerning kanji use, and advocated the use of rōmaji, which they considered more convenient. As a result, the gradual abolition of kanji became official policy for the SCAP.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_script_reform