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>Consider the worst case scenerio: a Japanese text telling how to write
>Chinese characters.

I don't think this can be considered a worst case scenario.  The style
differences we are looking at between Japanese and Chinese can probably
be summarized as follows:

Chinese Ming:  slender strokes, pronounced hooks
Japanese Ming:  strokes slightly thicker, hooks not as pronounced
Chinese Gothic:  stroke width depends on the spacing of the strokes
Japanese Gothic:  stroke width is generally constant

There may very well be some characters that share a single Unicode point
between Chinese and Japanese but have different forms that are not
completely interchangeable with forms that differ only in a stylistic
manner.  (I assume that Mr. Ohta knows of many such examples, but I
have yet to see a concrete example posted here.)

Besides, in the example above, each character would be graphically
represented to show the stroke order.  (The use of a printed character
would be quite misleading, since the printed version of a character often
seems to have more strokes than the handwritten version.)

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp