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While many studies have investigated the teaching of kanji to non-kanji-area students, only a small number of studies have done so for kanji-area students such as Chinese. In addition, these latter studies have focused rather on the teaching of reading, rather than on writing. In fact, Chinese students often write Chinese-style characters instead of Japanese kanji. This paper reexamines the need for kanji learning meterials for kanji-area students and introduces the notion of kanji materials focusing specifically on the difference between Japanese style and Chinese style characters.