>>5
Because Japanese fucked themselves over by limiting their phonetic speech. It's hard to understand Japanese without kanji.
As more time goes on, it seems like they're introducing more and more different sounds, so it could be possible in the future something happens and kanji is abolished (not the near future though). You never know.. Korean abandoned it with their superior alphabet system (better than even ours) and China tried but was like ohshit what does shi shi shi shi shi shi shi mean? It's a sentence!