Because they are different countries. They originallY had the same,but then stuff happened and the Japanese changed theirs a bit.Same thing about the Koreans.
Chinese has different sounds, lettering, and meanings to their writings. Japanese is the same way but Japanese do borrow the Chinese lettering from the Chinese and but the Japanese do have their own pronunciation for it. They are still different languages.
In Japanese it is ryo, in Chinese it is chang.
Chinese, Japanese and Korean all use Chinese characters for words, but each of these languages use them a bit differently. All three of these languages also can use Arabic numerals or Chinese characters to write numbers. Korean and Japanese languages share many commonalities in grammar and structure. Although Korean and Japanese use a lot of Chinese characters in writing, these two languages are drastically different from Chinese.
no that is wrong and the previous answer was toatly incorrect and annoying they are both the same but earlier on in the tribes they split and formed different languages and cultures
Chinese and Japanese are different and totally unrelated languages. However, they use the same script. So, it wouldn't matter. The Korean language, another unrelated languages used to use the Chinese script but they have their own writing system now.
Chinese and Japanese are completely UNRELATED languages. There is no similarity at all, other than the fact that the Japanese borrowed about 2000 Chinese characters. There are also some loanwords from Chinese.
Japanese people do not speak Chinese unless they have learned it in school or have lived in China. For the languages of Japan, click here.
Hebrew: ראין Arabic:راين Japanese: ライアン Chinese: 瑞安 Hindi: रयान
Chinese and sometimes English
Chinese and Japanese
Multiple languages are spoken in Asia, for example: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, and lots more. Also lots of Asian languages have dialects which are considered to be different languages by some.
Most of the languages of the world do not belong on the European language tree, such as all of the indigenous languages of Asia Africa, Australia and the Americas. This would include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Cherokee, Navaho, etc. There are also some European languages that are not on the European language tree, such as Hungarian and Basque.