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For japanese script

1. 2000 years ago, japanese people does not write in their own language. They only write in Classical Chinese.

2.700 years afterward, they developed a   man'yōgana system and use sound of chinese character to represent sound of japanese word.

3. Later, manyogana are simplified into hiragana and katakana

And for the japan history of that period:

Quote from wikipedia:  The first mention of the  Japanese archipelago was in the Chinese historic text  Book of Later Han, in the year 57, in which it was noted that the  Emperor of the  Han Dynasty gave a golden seal to  Wa (Japan). The  King of Na gold seal was discovered in northern  Kyūshū in the eighteenth century. [1]  From then on Japan was repeatedly recorded in Chinese historical texts, at first sporadically, but eventually continuously as Japan matured into a notable power in the region.

In AD 663 the  Battle of Baekgang<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> took place, the first China-Japanese conflict in recorded history. The battle was part of the ancient relationships between the Korean Three Kingdoms ( Samguk<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> or  Samhan<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">), the Japanese  Yamato<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">, and Chinese dynasties. The battle itself came near the conclusion of this period with the fall of  Baekje<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">, one of the  Samguk<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> or three Korean kingdoms, coming on the heels of this battle. <ac_metadata title="....history of japan and japanese..." lastmove="1405507205"> </ac_metadata>