Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

When the radicals are all stacked on top of each other, how the fuck do they fit it on one line? Do they have like way bigger lined paper than us? Or do they have 0.1 led?