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Premaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This article provides a comparative evaluation of Chinese character reform in the People's Republic of China and Japan, with a particular focus on the latest changes announced in 2009 to the existing script policies in the two countries. The first Chinese script reform took place in 1956 and the first Japanese script reform in 1946, both for the…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Premaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
Information and communication technology appears to have had a profound impact on language use in Japan. An important issue arising from this is said to be the increase in the use of Chinese characters (kanji) outside the official standard. This development has made a re-appraisal of the existing script policy necessary in order to accommodate the…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Information Technology