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Originally Posted by DNSB
The two fonts mentioned have a lot more glyphs/characters than the other fonts on the device. This allows display of hiragana, katakana and kanji along with Latin characters required by Japanese typography. You do have to wonder about using 4 different alphabets.
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They aren't alphabets, two are syllabaries and one is a set of characters, along with the latin alphabet. They all serve a purpose. While you could write Japanese in just one of the syllabaries or the latin alphabet it's a lot harder to read.
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