Well... like, when I was taking Japanese, it didn't seem very much at all like Chinese. As teh aunt pointed out, in Chinese, one has to get the sounds exactly right or the word means something entirely different, but she said that when she went to Japan, one could have the worst accent in the world and people still understood. And yes. I understand Japanese kanji can mean more than one thing. I know barely anything about Japanese culture apart from Ikebana, and I don't think the Chinese do that. O_o Correct me if I'm wrong. They just seem like distinctly different cultures, especially as the things the Japanese absorb they make their own.

Really, just cannot understand how such mistakes are made.