<div dir="ltr"><h2 class="gmail-title" style="font-size:24px;line-height:28px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,"Open Sans",sans-serif;padding-bottom:7px">Cultures and Politics of Script Reform in Japan, 1945-1995</h2><div class="gmail-details gmail-section" style="margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(113,113,113);line-height:21px"><div class="gmail-dropdown gmail-has-dropdown gmail-versions-dropdown" style="display:inline-block;margin-right:7px"><a class="gmail-normal-link gmail-drop-trigger" href="https://figshare.com/articles/Cultures_and_Politics_of_Script_Reform_in_Japan_1945-1995/7997921#" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(199,77,90);font-weight:bold;display:inline-block;border-radius:3px 3px 0px 0px"><div class="gmail-version-trigger" style="display:inline-block;padding:6px 23px 6px 7px;line-height:14px;font-size:14px">Version <span class="gmail-qa-version-id">3</span></div></a></div> <div class="gmail-item-type-details" tabindex="0" style="display:inline-block"><span class="gmail-tooltip-trigger" style="border-bottom:1px dashed;text-transform:capitalize">Thesis</span></div> posted on 05.06.2019, 20:35 <span class="gmail-authors-holder">by<span class="gmail-author" style="margin-left:4px"> BASIL KHALIFA COSTAS DEREK CAHUSAC DE CAUX</span></span></div><div class="gmail-description gmail-section" style="margin-bottom:1.5em;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;overflow-x:auto">Basil's thesis investigates the factors and forces that changed written Japanese between the years 1945 and 1995. It compares changes in official policies to changes in written Japanese among various groups in Japan. Using the concept of language ownership, it analyses links between Japanese and Chinese language policy makers, the education system, consumerism, the youth, and developments in Japanese word processing. The thesis finds that actions outside of officialdom are as important as official policies shaping written Japanese. In the future policy makers should account for the opinions of various groups with a vested interest in written Japanese.</div><div class="gmail-funding gmail-section" style="margin-bottom:1.5em"></div><div class="gmail-timeline gmail-section" style="padding-top:9px;overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:1.5em"><div class="gmail-timeline-wrapper" style="margin-top:42px;font-size:14px"><h4 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(113,113,113);margin:0px;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">TIMELINE</h4><div class="gmail-timeline" style="padding-top:9px;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><div class="gmail-timeline-navigation" style="width:628px;height:2px;display:flex;margin-bottom:7px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>