08-30-2009, 12:18 AM
His claims are totally wrong. You need around 2,500-3,000 kanji to be literate in Japanese society- as the person above said, even with over 1,000 you still can't read a newspaper, and no-one here is expected to be able to read 50,000 kanji.
Don't believe everything you see/hear on the internet.
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