I am Mr. Tanaka from ABC Company. Mr. Sanger is of an employee of Nupedia. The preceding conversation would be written in Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Roots of words would be written in Kanji, the traditional Japanese ideograms that the Japanese borrowed from the Chinese. Japanese nouns have neither number nor gender.
Verbs normally come at the end of a sentence.
The present tense in Japanese serves the function of the simple present, the continuous present, the habitual present, and the future tense, while the past tense in Japanese serves the function of the simple past tense, the present perfect and the past perfect tense. The exact meaning is determined from the context. Adjectives, are inflected to show the present, past, affirmative and negative. They always follow the noun. Particles play an extremely important function in Japanese.