The Latinization of the Japanese alphabet is absolutely necessary, in the opinion of Professor Tanaka-date, of the Imperial University Tokyo and a member of the Intel-Iectual Ca-operation Committee of the League of Nations Branch). He declares that this imperative, both commercially and educationally, and that it will ex-podite the cultural union of East and West, present written language, the Chinese script, is anyway fo Romanizing our should cling to. th graphs of the At pres it takes a ditigont six years to learn' to read and write properly, and if phonetic system could be devised, it is believed that this period could bbe considerably cut, wth manifold advantages to all concerned.
There are in Japan two phonetic kato Whilst these suffice for} alphabets—the hira-gona and the
some of the more ordinary purposes, they are however far from fying the educational needs, and for the brans' Chinese script has to be used.
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