Keywords: Steps toward horizontal katakana writing.png Steps toward horizontal katakana writing It describes the line of the Kanamojikai Kana Character Association in 1930s Their first two steps namely left-to-right horizontal writing and kanji restriction were accepted by Japanese government later and they are very common today This image was scanned at 300 dpi Kanamojikai Kana Character Association p 68 1935 カナモジカイ と 国語 協会 文字 文化 展覧会 出品物 解説 カナモジカイ 第68ページ 1935年 1935 en Kanamojikai Kana Character Association and Kokugo Kyōkai Japanese Language Association and use kanji only for words that make confusion without kanji e g 科学 kagaku science and 化学 kagaku chemistry We will do terminology reform to purge words having the same pronunciation and different meanings at this step ; 6 Write horizontally with katakana as the goal If we go through the above steps horizontal katakana writing will spread by itself </div> PD-Japan This image is in the public domain under Article 53 1 of the Copyright Act of Japan because it was authored under the names of corporate bodies and published more than 50 years ago Kanamozikai |