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I personally found Japanese to be more difficult than Korean, but I have to admit that since I started Korean over a decade before seriously studying Japanese, there is an unavoidable bias there. I do think objectively it is harder to learn to read and write Japanese, due to the number of writing systems and complexity of them. There are, of course, some advantages to kanji (Chinese characters) since they communicate meaning and clear up ambiguity (especially in Japanese and Korean in cases where words have the same pronunciation but different kanji, and thus different meaning). But that advantage is dependent on first remembering the characters. I find the grammar to be of similar complexity. I have more trouble remembering Japanese grammar specifics, but again I think that's more a matter of having much more experience with Korean.
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