Linguistic Landscape in East Asia
Campaign flyers and posters from the July 2025 election for Japan’s House of Councillors (Upper House), showing the visual interplay of Japan’s three scripts—kanji, hiragana, and katakana—across political materials.
Multilingual metro signage in Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei reflects the coexistence of scripts in shared public space.
(Photo taken July 2025)Books and magazines in Taiwanese combining Chinese characters and Latin script, illustrating how colonial legacies shape writing system.
(Photo taken July 2025)Writing in ethnic minority regions features standardized Chinese with some use local scripts—such as Tibetan, Yi, or Zhuang—in the public spaces in, China
Banners and flyers from Taiwan’s 2025 mass recall campaigns (大罷免), targeting KMT lawmakers in recall votes held on July 26 and August 23, 2025.
Political banners featuring Lee Jae‑myung, victorious in South Korea’s June 2025 presidential election amid national political turmoil.
In Hanoi, Vietnam, while historical buildings still preserve Chinese inscriptions, contemporary Vietnamese writing primarily uses a Latin-based alphabet
(Photo taken June 2023).