Arinori Mori, a key player in the Meiji Restoration and Japan’s first minister of education, wrote a book, “Education of Japan,” in 1873 based on his experiences overseas, including in England and the U.S., as a diplomat. In the preface, he suggests the drastic measure of eliminating the Japanese language, saying all Japanese should learn English instead. According to him, Japanese has vocabulary insufficient to convey abstract ideas and is over-reliant on Chinese, which hardly helps Japanese people digest and adopt western cultures.

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