<P> The centralization of the Japanese state in the sixth and seventh centuries also owes a debt to Korea . In 535 the Japanese government established military garrisons called "miyake" throughout Japan to control regional powers and in many cases staffed them with Korean immigrants . Soon after a system of "be", government - regulated groups of artisans, was created, as well as a new level of local administration and a tribute tax . All of these were likely influenced by similar systems used in Baekje and other parts of Korea . Likewise Prince Shōtoku's Twelve Level Cap and Rank System of 603, a form a meritocracy implemented for Japanese government positions, was influenced by that of Baekje . </P> <P> Immigrants from Korea also played a role in drafting many important Japanese legal reforms of the era, including the Taika Reform . Half of the individuals actively involved in drafting Japan's Taihō Code of 703 were Korean . </P> <P> Scribes from the Korean state of Baekje who wrote Chinese introduced writing to Japan in the early fifth century . The man traditionally credited as being the first to teach writing in Japan is the Baekje scholar Wani . Though a small number of Japanese people were able to read Chinese before then, it was thanks to the work of scribes from Baekje that the use of writing was popularized among the Japanese governing elite . For hundreds of years thereafter a steady stream of talented scribes would be sent from Korea to Japan, and some of these scholars from Baekje wrote and edited much of the Nihon Shoki, one of Japan's earliest works of history . </P> <P> According to Bjarke Frellesvig, "There is ample evidence, in the form of orthographic' Koreanisms' in the early inscriptions in Japan, that the writing practices employed in Japan were modelled on continental examples . The history of how the early Japanese modified the Chinese writing system to develop a native phonogram orthography is obscure, but scribal techniques developed in the Korean peninsular played an important role in the process of developing Man'yōgana . The pronunciation of Chinese characters at this period thus may well reflect that current in the Baekje kingdom . Frellesvig states, "However, writing extensive text passages entirely or mostly phonographically, reflected in the widespread use of man'yōgana, is a practice not attested in Korean sources which therefore seems to be an independent development which took place in Japan ." Japanese katakana share many symbols with Korean Gugyeol, for example, suggesting the former arose in part at least from scribal practices in Korea, though the historical connections between the two systems are obscure . </P>

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