Japanese can use formal syllable-writing system {kana}.
Japanese can use syllable-writing system {kana majiri}. Because it comes from hiragana, Chinese-ideogram translations use kana majiri.
Japanese syllable-writing systems {kanji} can have logograms.
Japanese syllable-writing system {katakana}, derived from Chinese ideograms, is for official documents and science.
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