User blog comment:Lvdoomien/Mother of God.../@comment-4080028-20120425044406/@comment-1949750-20120425061059

difference between regular Japanese and Japanese Kanj?

What are you talking about?

Kanji is an intergal part of Japanese.

What Wg4 said is almost correct.

There are 3 basic components in the JPN writing system.

Romanji is just the latin alphabet such as English used to allow us Eng speakers to read and pronounce JPN words.
 * Hiragana - used for native JPN words and words that Kanji does not cover such as grammar particles in sentences
 * Katakana - used to incorporate foreign words in JPN. Also used for onomatopoeia,
 * Kanji- derived from the Chinese characters but pronounced differently in JPN. Pretty much, they are the condensed version of hiragana and katakana.