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88 most of the Japanese groups and institutions which are most deeply concerned in the problem and print most of the material using Rōmaji are resolutely continuing to use the Old Romanization. Furthermore, the Old Romanization is still accepted everywhere outside of Japan, and the weight of the forty or fifty years during which it has been the acknowledged standard system has given it a lead in world use over Nipponsiki and Kokutei that could not be overcome in anything short of several decades. It will be no simple task to substitute such startling Romanization as Tyōsyū for Chōshū, Huzi for Fuji, Tusima for Tsushima and zyūzitu for jūjitsu. The half-hearted support of Kokutei by certain groups in Japan will accomplish little in the face of the evident superiority of the Old Romanization, its decades of unquestioned supremacy, and the determined support it is being given by many Japanese as well as most foreigners. Kokutei has by no means won the battle. It still is decidedly the weaker opponent of the two, and any deflection from the Old Romanization on the part of this society or any other group, whether in Japan or abroad, will not tend towards uniformity, as Mr. Carr asserts, but will only lead towards greater confusion.

In conclusion, one may summarize the case for the Old Romanization as follows. Of the three systems it alone is a phonetic