The Japanese language has very limited sounds, many words sound the same and the meaning is only gleaned through the kanji characters used to write it or from context. Erasing kanji would make the language even harder to understand. Anyway, both hiragana and katakana were created using pieces of kanji, so Chinese characters are in all of their forms of writing.
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Reply to Why didn't Japan excise Chinese characters from the Japanese language, when Japan hated China so much? by 3cana
The Japanese language has very limited sounds, many words sound the same and the meaning is only gleaned through the kanji characters used to write it or from context. Erasing kanji would make the language even harder to understand. Anyway, both hiragana and katakana were created using pieces of kanji, so Chinese characters are in all of their forms of writing.