[Lynk Former]

Well the two most used languages in the world are Chinese and English.... and Japan uses both in written form in different ways and for different reasons. I guess in terms of English characters in Japan, it's a form of standardisation. It occurs more in videogames than anything else. When you play a videogame and you die, you'll see GAME OVER and CONTINUE written rather than than any Japanese text. No katakana, no hiragana and no kanji...