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EAI and IDNs in Japan

China has a million unicode domains (慕田峪长城.网址 is the tourist site for the Great Wall), Japan has barely more than zero. That difference puzzled me until I saw the Japanese magazines below (posted by Derek Guy).

Clearly, the Japanese learn enough A-Z in primary school that ordinary magazines can use a lot of Latin letters, which implies that their readers are also comfortable with Latin domain names and email addresses.