No. You won't be able to read anything that isn't designed to be read by kindergarteners if you can't read kanji (at least primary-school level [1]). But even l

No. You won't be able to read anything that isn't designed to be read by kindergarteners if you can't read kanji (at least primary-school level [1]). But even learning the most common ones is really useful. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Diku_kanji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Diku_kanji