영문목차
Introduction=vii
Chapter 1=1
What is language planning? language policy?=1
How Japanese is written=3
History of language policy in Japan=11
Language policy formulation in Japan today=17
Underlying imperatives of language policy=21
Which script?=26
Some Japanese perspectives on language policy=32
The major arguments=37
Chapter 2=54
Historical background to government action=54
The National Language Research Council=60
The kana problem=66
A temporary hiatus=69
The Interim National Language Research Council=75
The National Language Council=82
Chapter 3=86
Kokutai and kotodama=86
Domestic frustrations J=89
External language policies=100
Taiwan and Korea=105
Preparations in Japan=109
Chapter 4=121
Democracy and script=122
The early reforms: characters and kanazukai=131
A reorganised National Language Council=148
Reforms in the 1950s: name kanji, okurigana=151
Results of the postwar reforms=157
Chapter 5=163
Hyoonha and hyoiha=163
The 1961 walkout=166
A period of change=172
The LDP intervenes=178
The reversal begins: the 1966 shimon and the 25-year cycle of reevaluation=183
Notes=202
English Bibliography=229
Japanese Bibliography=233
Index=243