The United States and China are separated by Wan Li. But after the end of World War II, the United States began to take over Japan in an all-round way. In order to prevent Japan from rising again as a foreign aggression country, the United States decided to promote universal education in Japan, hoping that through the education of several generations, Japan will be completely reformed. In this context, the United States put forward the idea of abolishing Chinese characters.

Americans think that most slogans put forward by Japan during World War II are written in China, so they should be excluded from Japanese cultural study. At the same time, Americans also think that Chinese characters are too difficult to learn, which is an obstacle for the United States to carry out large-scale education and popularization in Japan in the future. Therefore, Americans conducted a large-scale survey all over Japan, trying to understand the Japanese people's cognition and acceptance of Chinese characters.

World outlook of Chinese characters

However, the results of the national literacy survey conducted in August of 1948 made Americans very disappointed. Most Japanese think that Chinese characters are not difficult to learn, and Chinese characters in Japanese are very important. Therefore, the plan to abolish Chinese characters in the United States has not been supported by Japanese nationals. In the end, Chinese characters were preserved in Japan and continue to be an important part of Japanese culture.

Although the United States tried to abolish Chinese characters, it was mainly for political and cultural reasons, not for hatred of Chinese characters themselves. With the passage of time, the attitude of the United States towards Chinese characters has also changed. Now more and more Americans are beginning to learn and study Chinese characters and learn about China culture. On a global scale, Chinese characters, as the representative of China culture, have attracted more and more attention.