The difference compared to the flag of Japan is that the Rising Sun Flag has extra sun rays (16 for the ensign) exemplifying the name of Japan as "The Land of the Rising Sun". ... The flag was used until Japan's surrender in World War II during August 1945.In Japanese Happy/Merry Christmas is 'Meri Kurisumasu'. And it's written in the two Japanese scripts like this; Hiragana: めりーくりすます; Katakana: メリークリスマス. Happy/Merry Christmas in lots more languages.Hiragana is the main alphabet or character set for Japanese. Japanese also consists of two other character sets - Kanji (Chinese characters), which we will get into later, and another alphabet/character set, Katakana, which is mainly used for foreign words. Katakana will be covered in Lesson 2.The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon Period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia, Europe, and North America.Grammar, sound, dialect all is different. 2ndly~ similarity comes in all three languages as Korean shares 60~70% Chinese Vocabs. In Japan too use Chinese as I know, but it's Japanese style Chinese called Kanji, it's not really same chinese as I know.Roots of Japanese language
The origin of Japanese is in considerable dispute amongst linguists. Evidence has been offered for a number of sources: Ural-Altaic, Polynesian, and Chinese amonge others. ... Today, Japanese is written with a mixture of the three: "kanji", "hiragana", and "katakana".