Japanese writing incorporates both Chinese characters and symbols that have a sound value like an alphabet (called a syllabary). Because of their syllabary, the Japanese are able to learn much more ...

A Guide to Japanese - The Japanese alphabet What's significant about the Japanese alphabet? Made in China Kanji are early Chinese characters imported into Japan in the fifth century.

Chinese fighter jets flew unusually close to Japanese military patrol planes over the Pacific last weekend, Tokyo said, after it spotted two Chinese aircraft carriers simultaneously deployed in ...

In addition to two alphabets — strictly speaking, syllabaries — comprised of 46 characters each to write the modern language's sounds phonetically, written Japanese also uses imported Chinese ...