Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25034194-20140623125703/@comment-24980562-20140624154112

Yeah, Japan didn't have its own writing system, so they first used only Kanji, from which both Hiragana and Katakana were developed.

But to be honest, I'd rather have a Kanji & Kana system than an alphabet. Japanese has so many homophones that you can only tell apart by how they're written. Not to mention that writing exclusively in kana is like writing without any spaces and punctuation whatsoever because Japanese doesn't use any spacing between characters, that's what the combination of kanji and kana is for. Guess why games like Pokemon that use only kana insert spaces between words? It would be completely unreadable otherwise.