日本明治末期的汉字存废论争——以《东京朝日新闻》和《东亚研究》为中心
The Controversy Surrounding around the Preservation and Abolition of Chinese Characters in the End of Meiji Period of Japan—Focusing on the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun and East Asian Studies

从明治维新开始至甲午战争，随着西方文化的冲击，日本的知识分子逐渐开始审视汉字在日本发展中的作用。在这种背景下，一场旨在废除汉字，并引入罗马字和假名等表音文字，以重塑日语书写体系的运动兴起了。在这场运动中，学者、记者和教育家们在各种杂志和报纸上发表他们的看法，成为了探讨“汉字存废”的主要力量。本文采用文献研究方法，通过考察明治末期《东京朝日新闻》以及《东亚研究》上的各家意见，整理并分析当时“废除汉字论”及其反对意见的论点，以此深入了解当时日本社会对汉字书写体系的审视和思考。
From the beginning of the Meiji Restoration to the First Sino-Japanese War, with the impact of Western culture, Japanese intellectuals gradually began to examine the role of Chinese characters in the development of Japan. Against this backdrop, a movement aimed at abolishing Chinese characters and introducing phonetic scripts such as Romanization and kana emerged to reshape the Japanese writing system. Scholars, journalists, and educators expressed their views in various magazines and newspapers during this movement, becoming the main driving force in the discussion of the “retention or abolition of Chinese characters”. This article employs a literature review methodology, examining opinions from various sources in the end of Meiji period such as Tokyo Asahi Shimbun and East Asian Studies. It organizes and analyzes the arguments surrounding around the “Abolition theory of Chinese characters” and opposing views, providing an in-depth understanding of the Japanese society’s scrutiny and contemplation of the Chinese character writing system during that time.