[Japnese = Kanji?]
Could be. There are 3 Japanese alphabets, Hirigana, Katakana, and Kanji.
I can tell the 3 apart, but that's about it... It's probablyhirigana.
Katakana are used for foreign words, Kanji are the neat one-word-to
-a-picture characters. There's more than 4000 of them.
Hirigana are used for Japanese word where you don't know/there is no kanji,
I don't know Japanese, but I plan to learn it someday...
-------