http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/number-systems Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:57:39 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:57:39 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/527/the-japanese-number-system By Nicholas P. Leveillee - Borrowing heavily from the Chinese, Japan abandoned their own numerals many years ago and used the ones from China. When written and spoken, numbers are broken down into their key components, multiples of powers of ten. The Japanese combine the number with ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, and so on to create the desired number (Menninger 450). To understand Japanese numbers, one must first understand the language variants. Then, there are different symbols for each numeral, depending on the form of the writing (Ifrah 273, 276). Cultural taboos and a desire to avoid ambiguity also mean... Fri, 13 May 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/527/the-japanese-number-system