> So much so that people talk about dropping it every now and then.
They did consider it in the 20th century when Japan was modernizing and catching up with the Western world. Nowadays nobody takes you seriously if you propose abolishing it. The debate was settled in 1962-1966 [1] when the government officially gave up any attempt to remove kanji from the Japanese writing system. It’s a very much a fringe idea now.
[1]: See 国語国字問題 on Japanese Wikipedia. The full quote is 漢字仮名交じり文が審議の前提。漢字全廃は考えられない。
They did consider it in the 20th century when Japan was modernizing and catching up with the Western world. Nowadays nobody takes you seriously if you propose abolishing it. The debate was settled in 1962-1966 [1] when the government officially gave up any attempt to remove kanji from the Japanese writing system. It’s a very much a fringe idea now.
[1]: See 国語国字問題 on Japanese Wikipedia. The full quote is 漢字仮名交じり文が審議の前提。漢字全廃は考えられない。