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Japan, ~like the US~, has no official language. (edit: ~strike~)

• esseph 6mo ago
  > Japan, like the US, has no official language. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/designating-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-united-states/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/desi...
  • crooked-v 6mo ago
    POTUS doesn't have the power to set an official language.
    • esseph 6mo ago
      It's not the Department of War, either. Still says that everywhere.
      • Starman_Jones 6mo ago
        Talk is cheap.
        • corndoge 6mo ago
          Actually they are following through, check the news
        • red-iron-pine 6mo ago
          the US Dept of War is doing far more than just talk tho. see also: half of the middle east on fire.
      • UltraSane 6mo ago
        Legal documents, contracts, and court filings must continue to use Department of Defense because legally the Department of War doesn't exist.
    • throwawaypath 6mo ago
      Why not? Maybe they do?
• hogehoge51 6mo ago
  Japan also tends to leave many contextual and obvious things unstated, and relies on group concensus and information exchange between in group peers over top down authority, so may consider the ultimate group concensus, language, not needing to be codified. Although i do wonder what my son's 国語 text books teach if Japanese is not the official 国語.