{"id":64,"date":"2005-02-04T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-10-24T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T06:39:41","slug":"64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/64\/","title":{"rendered":"keigo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> Panel proposes guidelines to halt misuse of honorific Japanese<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 08:07 JST<br \/>\nTOKYO \u2014 A government panel on the Japanese language proposed Wednesday setting up the nation&#8217;s first guidelines on the use of the honorific and polite form of speech [&#8220;<i>keigo<\/i>&#8220;] to counter its widespread misuse&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The panel also calls for revaluating Chinese characters designated for common use, known as &#8220;joyo kanji,&#8221; to reflect current use of Chinese characters on computers.<\/p>\n<p>The current joyo kanji table, which specifies 1,945 common Chinese characters, has not been updated since 1981. <b>The panel notes that the table did not foresee the widespread use of computers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The panel also suggested the need for conducting research on the public&#8217;s ability to write and read Chinese characters, and how frequently certain ones are used for the names of people and places.<\/p>\n<p>An Agency for Cultural Affairs official said it is necessary to study some characters that are often used but not included in the table. (Kyodo News)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And their point is&#8230;? With computers, people are increasingly unable to write characters by hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel proposes guidelines to halt misuse of honorific Japanese Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 08:07 JST TOKYO \u2014 A government panel on the Japanese language proposed Wednesday setting up the nation&#8217;s first guidelines on the use of the honorific and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/64\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,29,13,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters","category-japan","category-japanese","category-kanji","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}