The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Emphasis in sentences other than heading * and * are me.
Americans also regarded the reading and writing of Japanese as a delayed culture.
Because Alphabet 26 characters' American literacy rate has finally reached 60%.
Since Japanese use over 10,000 Chinese characters and it also use kana and alphabet, "85% of Japanese will not be able to read newspaper" it guessed.
"It is delaying the democratization of Japan" "First it should be Romanized, and it should finally be in English." (Shinchosha "MacArthur's Japan").
* It was this that the Roman letters spread to the Japanese. There is no doubt that some of the recent tendencies such as saying the terms used in the company to English are caused by this *
In order to admonish such idiots, the Ministry of Education conducted target reading and writing tests nationwide on targeting children and elderly people in 1943.
The result is 98% literacy rate.
There is a story that GHQ officer John Campbell Pelzel who was in charge pleaded to the Japanese side "Falsify the literacy rate at least to the United States".
This draft continues.
