(Column) The revolution of being able to type kanji easily!
Tadao Umesao, who was also the first director of the National Museum of Ethnology, seemed to have wanted to write quickly and stylishly. For this reason, he even worked on the development of a typewriter for writing in Japanese. In his work, "The Techniques of Intellectual Production" (Iwanami Shinsho), there is a passage as follows:
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From Pen to Typewriter
From my perspective, the goal is to use the typewriter to write in Japanese, not to use Roman or kana characters. For it to be accepted by society, the psychological resistance must be minimal. If possible, it would be ideal to type the current mixed kanji and kana text directly. The difficulty arises because that is not possible.
Umesao's struggle was suddenly resolved with the advent of word processors. I believe it was an event that could truly be called a "revolution!"
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