Surely a Chinese or Japanese based programming
language could be
 developed. 
The Tomy Pyuuta has a very limited BASIC variant called G-BASIC which has
Japanese keywords and is programmed with katakana characters (such as "kake"
for PRINT). It freely interchanges with the Tomy Tutor's GBASIC (no dash)
with the same tokens, documented here:
        
https://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/gbkeyw.html
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