What is the Japanese character reform?

Great achievements have been made in the reform of Japanese characters. In recent years, thanks to scientific and technological progress, the "Chinese character fever" has greatly warmed up, and computers and mobile phones have become the most powerful promoters of popularizing Chinese characters. This is related to the cultural basis that Japan has been actively advocating and encouraging the use of "commonly used Chinese characters", that is, simplified Chinese characters are used as well as traditional Chinese characters. The success of Japanese character reform is a mirror, which reflects China's debate on the road of Chinese character reform. On June 2nd, the Japanese government handed over the newly added List of New Commonly Used Chinese Characters with 19 1 commonly used Chinese characters to the public for discussion. On the basis of extensive consultation, it was revised and improved, and it was promoted on another day to conform to the trend of the times when more Chinese characters were frequently used in Japanese society. Japanese characters show amazing vitality in the new century. Over the years, more than 2.5 million Japanese have actively participated in the Chinese proficiency test, with unprecedented enthusiasm, and the number of applicants has even exceeded the number of English TOEFL students. "Chinese character verification" has unexpectedly become a "cash cow" that thrives year by year. At present, there are more than 492 universities or short-term universities and more than 399 departments of 1000 in high schools in Japan, which give extra points to those who pass the entrance examination "Chinese Test". Many large enterprises recruit national civil servants and select talents, and also include the ability to master Chinese characters as a reference point for admission. In modern Japanese society with more than 80 million mobile phones, more than half of the young people like to send short messages or inquire about Chinese writing on their mobile phones. The general Japanese computer fonts are equipped with more than 6,000 Chinese characters, which is more conducive to the wide use of Japanese Chinese characters. What's more, a famous computer professor at the University of Tokyo? Murakami and the Institute of Oriental Culture of the University also jointly developed a software which contains one of the largest Chinese characters in the world, including120,000 Chinese characters. In addition to accommodating more than 80,000 Chinese characters in Japanese and China Chinese character dictionaries, the software has successfully imported 35,000 ancient Chinese characters from Ming and Qing Dynasties, so as to facilitate Japanese citizens who are increasingly popular to print their own New Year cards to print China New Year cards with retro flavor. A Japanese self-study tutorial book entitled "Error-prone Chinese Characters that Seem to Read But Can't Read" has sold more than one million copies and topped the bestseller list continuously. Publishers even published a sequel in late May to encourage people to master Chinese characters. In addition, since last year, the cumulative sales of commonly used Chinese character dictionaries and four-character idiom dictionaries with the theme of "brand-new and thorough Chinese character mind" have exceeded 300,000 copies, and various CD-ROMs of Chinese character quiz games developed in the form of entertainment have been deeply loved by the majority of Japanese teenagers and sold well. In Japan, the annual1February 15 is designated as "Chinese Character Day", and the abbot of Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto will publicly write the annual Chinese characters of the social world selected by the people. Last year, the word "change" condensed the characteristics of current events and the world into a rich ideographic Chinese character, in order to receive shocking visual effects and thought-provoking spiritual touches. Of course, this move has also raised people's enthusiasm for learning and understanding Chinese characters to universal social values and social care. This annual "World Chinese Characters" contest was "introduced" to Taiwan Province Province and Chinese mainland, China, which made Chinese characters reproduce infinite charm. In fact, Japanese characters themselves are a touching story. Since Chinese characters were introduced to Japan in the Tang Dynasty, they have been regarded as "the beginning of politics" and "the foundation of economy and art", and Chinese has always been the official language. Even Hiragana, as a Japanese style, evolved from China's cursive script. However, after the Meiji Restoration, under the ideological trend of "leaving Asia and entering Europe", the theory of "complicated and inconvenient" and "backward and obsolete" of Chinese characters came one after another, and it was on the verge of being stifled several times. The Japanese character reform movement began in the Meiji era. It began with Shimadzu's suggestion of "abolishing Chinese characters", which advocated imitating western countries to adopt phonetic notation and formulate new grammar, but it was not officially adopted. 1923, Japan published 1962 Chinese Characters List and 154 Simplified Chinese Characters List, trying to replace Chinese characters with pseudonyms through restrictions and gradual reduction in the future. 1946, the Japanese government promulgated the list of commonly used Chinese characters and the usage of modern pseudonyms in an attempt to restrict the use of Chinese characters. However, Chinese characters have been deeply rooted in Japanese culture, which finally ended the theory of abolishing Chinese characters. In 1990s, with the development of computer technology, Chinese characters gained new vitality. Japan took the lead in solving the coding standards, input problems and development and application of square characters, which promoted the continuous increase of the standard number of Chinese characters and proved that Chinese characters are actually the most practical, effective and convenient characters in the world.