Language and Society in Japan: Recent Changes and Implications

Running head: TIME, TRUTH, AND HUMAN CONDITION
TIME, TRUTH, AND HUMAN CONDITION
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1TIME, TRUTH, AND HUMAN CONDITION
Introduction
Every society has gone through changes and continues to change every moment. Japan is
one of the countries which is currently witnessing issues in understanding of language. It has
been found that the nation is gradually adaptive to foreign languages and incorporating it with
the Japanese language. In the similar discourse, the paper will discuss language and society
along with recent changes.
Discussion:
The Japanese language is spoken by 130 million people by in Japan and Japanese
emigrants living across the globe. The language has a rich heritage value that combine several
factors such as eighteenth century major works of Old Japanese however less amount of
materials, primarily inscriptional. The vocabulary of Japanese language is heavily influenced by
loan from other language. While there are many words borrowed from Chinese over a period of
1500 years, lately a considerable number of words from Indo-European language have been
borrowed (Tanabe, 2018).
Tracing from the above information, it is only a popular stereotype that Japanese is the
only language spoken in Japan. Lately language and society in Japan began dealing with issues
that are significant to an understanding of language among the multiculturalism, nationalism,
language, literacy and reading habits. There is certainly more than one language spoken in the
nation and all of which comes with its own particular cultural implications. Language, similar to
any other countries plays vital role in the Japanese society and therefore, it is important to
understand the current change, reason of the change and the present existing pattern of the
change (Gottlieb, 2005).