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Shotoku Taishi: the Know-It-All Who Brought Chinese Culture to Japan

August 30, 2012 by Fiona 29 Comments

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Japan owes a lot to China, there’s no doubt about that. Almost all Japanese kanji were adopted from Chinese characters. Even hiragana and katakana are just random modified bits of Chinese characters. … [Read more...]

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