The purpose of this thesis is for the establishment of vocabulary education in Japan. The fact that Japanese uses Chinese characters for not only on Chinese based words but also on their native vocabulary indicates that teaching Chinese characters plays a big part in vocabulary education. Teaching Chinese characters is achieved through a list which demonstrates the Chinese characters needed to be educated at each grade. The list of Chinese character education by grade plays the role of a vocabulary list in Japan which does not have a educational basic vocabulary list. Presently 1,006 Chinese characters in total are required to be learned from grades 1 to 6. It can be said that children are put under big pressure as they have to learn both the sound and meaning of the Chinese characters. The rates for the Chinese character comprehension prove the above statement; the results show a 92.7% comprehension in reading while only 66.2% can actually write the answer. Maintaining this kind of a defective letter system is very irrational and thus can be said that it is necessary to make improvements. In the general society, the change of Chinese based words being substituted by foreign words is progressing rapidly. However in the educational scene more stress is being put on strengthening Chinese character education. There is a need to observe how this conflict will influence the Japanese education in the future.