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Introduction: What is language planning?, language policy?; How Japaneseis written; History of language policy in Japan; Language policy formulationin Japan today; Underlying imperatives of language policy; Which script?;Some Japanese perspectives on language policy; The major arguments.Historical background to government action; The National Language ResearchCouncil; The kana problem; A temporary hiatus; The Interim National LanguageResearch Council; The National Language Council. Kokutai and kotodama;Domestic frustrations; External language policies; Taiwan and Korea; Chinaand southeast Asia. Democracy and script; The early reforms: characters andkanazukai; A reorganized National Language Council; Reforms in the 1950s:name kanji, Orurigana; Renascent opposition; Results of the postwar reforms.Hyoonha and hyoiha; The 1961 walkout; A period of change; The LDP intervenes;The reversal begins: the 1966 shimon and the 25-year cycle of revaluation.