On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Jim Allan wrote: > Some scholars strongly differentiate between Chinese and Japanese > writing systems.
A wrong example. Not some scholars but virtually all do if you talk about writing systems. Japanese _writing system_ uses four _scripts_, Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji (Chinese characters) and Romaji (Latin letters). What you should have said is 'Chinese Hanzi and Japanese Kanji'.

