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system of writing Japanese completely by a romanized system, which he felt would make it easier for Japan to compete with Western countries. Since the system was intended for Japanese people to use to write their own language, it is much more regular than Hepburn romanization, and unlike Hepburn's
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should be used by the Japanese government. Kunrei-shiki is nearly identical to Nihon-shiki, but it merges syllable pairs di/zi ぢ/じ, du/zu づ/ず, dya/zya ぢゃ/じゃ, dyu/zyu ぢゅ/じゅ, dyo/zyo ぢょ/じょ, wi/i ゐ/い, we/e ゑ/え, kwa/ka くゎ/か, and gwa/ga ぐゎ/が, whose pronunciations in Modern Standard Japanese are now
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homophones listed above, it is the only formal system of romanization that can allow (almost) lossless ("round trip") mapping, but the standard does not mandate the precise spellings needed to distinguish ô 王/おう, ou 追う/おう and oo 大/おお. (See the
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Nihon-shiki is considered the most regular of the romanization systems for the Japanese language because it maintains a strict "one kana, two letters" form. Because it has unique forms corresponding to each of the respective pairs of
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system, which is intended for use instructing foreign students of Japanese, is also based on Nihon-shiki. However,
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Romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet
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system, it makes no effort to make itself easier to pronounce for English-speakers.
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system of romanization. Tanakadate's intention was to replace the traditional
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Kent, Allen, Harold Lancour, and Jay Elwood Daily (Executive Editors).
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some Japanese-speakers still distinguish di from zi and du from zu
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in modern Japanese, and is romanized as such in Kunrei. The
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are always marked by doubling the consonant following the
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and so Nihon-shiki spelling is not entirely obsolete.
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