2) I found this website on Kanji and Hanzi: http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/japanese_language/kanji.htm
Three things I found that were important were:
1) One of the earliest records of Chinese in Japan was the discovery of the Eastern Han emperor's gold seal in Japan dating back to 57 AD.
2) The first use of Hanzi in Japan was with the Japanese writing system called man'yogana which used Chinese characters for their associated sounds in poetry and not their actual meanings. Eventually this evolved into the modern day Hiragana system in Japan.
3) Japan has used Hanzi to make their own characters called Kokuji or Wasei Kanji like 峠 "toge" (mountain pass) that are unique to Japanese.
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