That’s entirely different. France, the U.S. and large parts of Europe all use the latin alphabet. We only have that one writing system (as opposed to the Japane

That’s entirely different. France, the U.S. and large parts of Europe all use the latin alphabet. We only have that one writing system (as opposed to the Japanese who have several). Katakana, hiragana and kanji (also the latin alphabet) are different ways of writing with different symbols and different ways of using those symbols. An “A”, however, is still an “A”, whether it’s typeset with Arial, Papyrus or Comic Sans. Also, this regulation is not really about protection the language from loan words. It’s about advertising.