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Japanese script reform

Index Japanese script reform

The Japanese script reform is the attempt to correlate standard spoken Japanese with the written word, which began during the Meiji period. [1]

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Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.

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Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems.

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Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated, commonly known as Adobe, is an American multinational computer software company.

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Agency for Cultural Affairs

The is a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

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Asahi characters

are forms of Kanji particular to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

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Ateji

In modern Japanese, principally refer to kanji used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters.

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Bungeishunjū

, established in 1923, is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine Bungeishunjū.

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Character encoding

Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.

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Dakuten and handakuten

The, colloquially, is a diacritic sign most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Extended shinjitai

is the extension of the shinjitai (officially simplified kanji).

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Family register

A family register (also known in several variations, such as household register and family album, and, when discussing non-anglophone countries, the native-language names of the registers such as Familienbuch in Germany, hukou in mainland China and koseki in Japan) is a civil registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or family-centric legal interest.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fukuzawa Yukichi

was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio University, Jiji-Shinpō (a newspaper) and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases.

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Furigana

is a Japanese reading aid, consisting of smaller kana, or syllabic characters, printed next to a kanji (ideographic character) or other character to indicate its pronunciation.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hentaigana

In the Japanese writing system, are obsolete or nonstandard hiragana.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script).

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Historical kana orthography

The, or, refers to the in general use until orthographic reforms after World War II; the current orthography was adopted by Cabinet order in 1946.

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Ichitaro

is a Japanese word processor produced by JustSystems, a Japanese software company.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese Industrial Standards Committee

The is a standards organization and is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) member body for Japan.

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Japanese particles

Japanese particles, or, are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective, or sentence.

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Jōyō kanji

The is the guide to kanji characters and their readings, announced officially by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

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Jinmeiyō kanji

The are a set of 863 Chinese characters known as "name kanji" in English.

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JIS X 0208

JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language.

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JIS X 0213

JIS X 0213 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining coded character sets for encoding the characters used in Japan.

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JustSystems

is a Japanese software development house.

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Kamo no Mabuchi

was a Japanese poet and philologist of the Edo period.

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Kana

are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).

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Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Koseki

A is a Japanese family registry.

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Kyōiku kanji

, also known as is a list of 1,006 kanji and associated readings developed and maintained by the Japanese Ministry of Education that prescribes which kanji, and which readings of kanji, Japanese schoolchildren should learn for each year of primary school.

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Kyūjitai

, are the traditional forms of kanji, Chinese written characters used in Japanese.

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet or the Roman alphabet is a writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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List of CJK fonts

This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts which contain a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters).

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Maejima Hisoka

Baron, born, was a Japanese statesman, politician, and businessman in Meiji-period Japan.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Meiryo

is a Japanese sans-serif gothic typeface.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12) is a version of Microsoft Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft.

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Minamata disease

, sometimes referred to as, is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.

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Ministry of Justice (Japan)

The is one of the cabinet level ministries of the Japanese government.

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Miso

is a traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and koji (the fungus Aspergillus oryzae) and sometimes rice, barley, or other ingredients.

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Mori Arinori

Viscount was a Meiji period Japanese statesman, diplomat, and founder of Japan's modern educational system.

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Motoori Norinaga

was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period.

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Naoya Shiga

was a Japanese novelist and short story writer active during the Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan.

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NHK

is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.

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Nishi Amane

was a philosopher in Meiji period Japan who helped introduce Western philosophy into mainstream Japanese education.

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Occupation of Japan

The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth.

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Okurigana

are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words.

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OpenType

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts.

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Phonemic orthography

In linguistics, a phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (significant spoken sounds) of the language.

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Radical (Chinese characters)

A Chinese radical is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.

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Rendaku

is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word.

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Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.

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Ruby character

are small, annotative glosses that are usually placed above or to the right of Chinese characters when writing languages with logographic characters such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean to show the pronunciation.

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Ryakuji

Ryakuji (略字 "abbreviated characters", or hissha ryakuji, meaning "handwritten abbreviated characters") are colloquial simplifications of kanji.

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Sapporo

is the fifth largest city of Japan by population, and the largest city on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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Shōgun

The was the military dictator of Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions).

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Shinjitai

are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946.

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Simplified Chinese characters

Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China.

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Suematsu Kenchō

Viscount was a Japanese politician, intellectual and author, who lived in the Meiji and Taishō periods.

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Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) (originally briefly styled Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers) was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II.

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Taishō period

The, or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō.

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Tōyō kanji

The tōyō kanji, also known as the Tōyō kanjihyō (当用漢字表, "list of kanji for general use") are the result of a reform of the Kanji characters of Chinese origin in the Japanese written language.

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

was the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.

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Tsuneari Fukuda

was a Japanese dramatist, translator, and literary critic.

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Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) is an operating system by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs and media center PCs.

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Word processor

A word processor is a computer program or device that provides for input, editing, formatting and output of text, often plus other features.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yomiuri Shimbun

The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_script_reform

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