There are three kinds of Chinese public specifications- Chinese characters commonly used, Chinese characters used for name, JIS ( Japanese industrial standard) Chinese characters. And the Chinese characters commonly used had been re-regulated in 2010. This is in order to adapt to the information society in recent years in Japanese writing for the target machine, linkage information in Chinese characters, Chinese characters table about new commonly used several Chinese characters, the same radical, but with a different orthographic representation.This article on why will have this kind of situation, face the reality how future considerations, about corresponding to its reason, the postwar Chinese policy change to consider.

Japan under the postwar innovation circumstance announced the 1840 Chinese characters for common use in 1946, providing that students in 9 year compulsory education should studied 881 characters among 1840, it was called‘the education Chinese characters’. After that passed through more than 30 year peaceful times revising, announced“the common character table”in March, 1981, the altogether 1945 characters, being used in the education, the news, the magazine, the broadcast. The writing reform cannot give a thought to the respective culture and the language environment, but must consider fully past cultural heritage and present's international present situation to carry on methodically. I recognize the present to start to enter this process by no means time is excessively late.