『世界人権宣言』 （1948.12.10 第３回国連総会採択）

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE) Official Language: Japan BACKGROUND Japanese, spoken by more than 125 million people in Japan, ranks among the top ten languages of the world. It belongs to the Japanese-Ryukyu family, yet no definite link has been established between Japanese and any other language, living or dead. Though it adopted the Chinese pictographic characters in the 3rd century A.D.,