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The most ancient texts of japan are the kojiki records of ancient matters, the nihon shoki the chronicles of japan, and the manyoshu collection of ten thousand leaves. The earliest extant largescale works compiled in japan are the historical chronicles kojiki 712 and. Written records of japanese date to the 8th century, the oldest among them being the kojiki 712. Textbooks include cds for speaking and listening practice. This book deals chronologically with the history of writing in japan, a subject which spans a period of 2,000 years, beginning with the transmission of writing from china in about the first or second century ad, and concluding with the use of written japanese with computers. A lot of work has been published in various countries in recent years on the development of japanese language and writing, and this is a book that covers the range of related topics and presents them in an accessible format of a reference work.
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