The Cultural Affairs Agency has finalized a draft proposal to adopt the Hepburn style as the unified standard of romaji, or romanized Japanese, primarily due its closer resemblance to English pronunciation.

The Cultural Affairs Agency has finalized a draft proposal to adopt the Hepburn style as the unified standard of romaji, or romanized Japanese, primarily due its closer resemblance to English pronunciation.

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Currently, schools [in Japan] primarily teach the kunrei style in accordance with the existing Cabinet announcement. However, the Hepburn style is widely used in society.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    7·
    26 days ago

    This has nothing to do with speaking. This is just the government deciding which system to use (or at least favor) for transliterating things into English when writing (street signs for example). If you want to speak/learn Japanese, skip romaji altogether.