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The Japanese language has over 130 million speakers and uses a complex writing system combining Chinese characters (kanji) with two phonetic scripts (hiragana and katakana). It has absorbed many loanwords from Chinese and English. Japanese literature was initially influenced by Chinese models but developed native genres like waka and haiku poetry and Heike epic tales. Major authors include Murasaki Shikibu, Ihara Saikaku, and modern writers like Mishima Yukio and Murakami Haruki who were influenced by Weste
- Author
- Iao Moa
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