Frequency Analysis of 600 Million Characters on Newspapers in Japan and System Development of Data Providing for Japanese Language Learners by Web

在国外学习汉字一直是日语学习者的难点。我们尝试制作一个汉字学习资源库，并开发一个系统，通过WWW向全世界提供。日语信息的传播存在着许多障碍，包括学习阅读复杂的日语书写系统的困难，以及处理和显示用于书写日语的数千个字符的技术困难。我们在本项目中开发的系统使用90，000个GIF图像文件显示日语文本，从而允许人们使用具有图形界面的任何因特网浏览器来查看日语的任意数据，从而避免了安装任何专用日语软件的需要。该系统的一部分已在经济产业省的国家项目中得到应用和验收。这些结果表明，我们的研究不仅具有学术价值，而且具有政治观点。

Japanese language learners always have difficulties to learn Kanji in foreign countries. We have tried making a resource of Kanji learning, and developing a system to provide it all over the world by WWW. There are a number of barriers to the dissemination of information in Japanese, including the difficulty of learning to read the complex writing system of Japanese, as well as the technological difficulty of processing and displaying the thousands of characters used to write Japanese.The system we have developed in this project displays Japanese text using 90,000 GIF image files, thus allowing one to view arbitrary data in the Japanese language using any Internet browser with a graphical interface, thus avoiding the need to install any specialized Japanese software. A part of this system has been applied and accepted in a national project by the Ministry of economy, Trade and Industry. These results show that our study has not only academic value but also political views.