of course, chinese is original, because we have longer history than Japan :)

You will see most of the Japanese characters are the part of Chinese characters. It means Chinese characers are the original, we have much longer history.

أنا مسرورة تحب إجابتي About your question of "those characters usage in japanese have the same pronunciation as in chinese ?"Some pronunciations of characters are similar to chinese,but most are different,I think that the contact of Chinese and Japanese maybe like the Arabic and Persian

To avoid being misled by some members, you'd better read these articals first on wikipedia. 1) on Sino-Japanese vocabulary and readings : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei_kango#wasei_kango 2) on Kanji : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji 3) on Hiragana : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana 4) on Katakana : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana 5) on Hangul : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul 諸君 諸多誤導 一語難盡 舉其大者 1 並非長得像漢字 就是漢字 日本人還自製和字 2 片假名與平假名仍然是起源於漢字的楷書偏旁或是草書 3 中日文化交流並非始於唐代 遣唐使之前已有遣隋使 更早在漢代就有交流紀錄了 4 漢語語音與字彙之變革無時無刻的進行 並非起於清代 更非影響日韓語文之開端 清政府成立之前 韓國已有自己的文字了 5 日語之音讀非定於有唐一代 更非定於長安一帶 日語裡甚至還有吳音存在 6 韓語之諺文hangul 與漢字不相比擬 6 世界大同 和為貴 民族歧視已經不符合世界潮流

actually it isn't my but to make fighting, but i wanted to know when and from where the characters were going; for example, arabic was also an ancient language, but the some words was using in same other places, and also its letters too, like in urdu, turkish, persian, but the origin of the them all, it's the arabic. regards