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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 7645169, member: 102103&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; I was a dual-major in Japanese during college, and worked as a researcher in Japan for half a year in grad school, so I have a lot of affinity for Japan, people and culture.&nbsp; My wife was raised by her grandparents, who had lived through WW2 in Mainland China, so I imagine they would have had a different perspective...</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of simplified characters, I found this book on my shelves as an example of the older type.&nbsp; It&#039;s Botchan, by Natsume Soseki (1906).&nbsp; I picked it up around 1994 at a used book store, but I think this printing was from 1957.&nbsp; (40 yen at that time!)&nbsp; For some reason they kept the older-style characters for this edition.&nbsp; For example, school is &quot;學校&quot; instead of the modern &quot;学校&quot;.&nbsp; The little phonetic text on the right side of some of the kanji are furigana.&nbsp; They give the pronunciation.&nbsp; This was probably a student edition, for readers who would not have known how to read some of the the harder characters yet.&nbsp; I can probably read about 1000-1300 characters (though I am quite rusty), which it enough to get through easy stuff or adult-level stuff with a dictionary and some time.&nbsp; But reading something literary like this for fun is beyond me.[ATTACH=full]1314536[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1314537[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1314538[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And some more coin photos, just for fun, showing the devolution of the 50 sen:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1314556[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1314557[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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