This book challenges the widespread belief that overzealous Americans forced unnecessary script reforms on an unprepared, unenthusiastic, but helpless Japan dur
Although the United States Education Mission recommended that the Japanese give serious consideration to the introduction of alphabetic writing, key American of
Japanese writing intermingles three different sets of characters, making it difficult to adapt to new technology. This book looks at why the Japanese have not r
First Published in 1995. The nature of the Japanese script has been a matter of contention since the early Meiji period. It was not until 1902, however, that th
Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, "looks like an object but is actually a relationsh