Chinese ↔ Japanese
China → Japan
- Japan is part of the Chinese cultural sphere
- They learned and borrowed kanji (Chinese characters)
China → Japan
- Japan was first modernized in the Meiji Restoration
- Many ideas and actual Chinese words were first invented by the Japanese (need sources)
- Examples: society, science, chemistry, time(?), etd
What next?
More culture is coming from Japan into China in recent years
What about the other direction? I really do not know