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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
I mean, would you consider コンピューター not Japanese? Would you consider しよう not Japanese because it's a Japanese attempt at pronouncing the Chinese 使 and 用?
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コンピューター is not Japanese.
使用 is a Chinese loan word.
哲学、資本、経済 are created by the Japanese but now used in Chinese and Korean, technically in Chinese and Korean, they are loan words from Japanese.
Kanji is a loaned writing system.
But at the end of the day, WHO CARES.
