From what little I know and from reading this, Japanese seems exactly like what Microsoft would design if it needed to make its own language. Complicated, full of ambiguity, still trying to keep compatibility with an older system (but breaks it anyway), pointlessly redesigned every once in a while. Reading seems even worse because very visually dense kanji just do not survive compression as much as a couple of sticks (like letters in an English or Cyrillic alphabet).
Granted, the language may have a beautiful side which you only learn about by actually learning the language, but still, spending an eternity to do so doesn't seem like a nice way to spend time.