ABSTRACT
Aphasia studies in Japan can be traced back to 1893, when Onishi (1893) published the first known treatise on aphasia (Hamanaka, 1994). The interesting fact that Kanji (logograph) and Kana (syllabograph) processing ability can sometimes be dissociable in aphasia was first reported by Miura in 1901 (Hamanaka, 1994).
