Japanese Is Dead

May 26, 2004

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TV and the Internet are eroding reading skills and cell phone babble is replacing rational speech.

Writer Saiichi Maruya, saying the Japanese language is being reduced to chaos. (Bungei?Shunju)

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Jean Snow is Production Services Manager at Ubisoft Shanghai.

Previously, he was based in Tokyo for over 15 years, where he lived and breathed design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes (he was also Executive Director at PechaKucha). He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired’s Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.