Do Japanese study classical Chinese?


Kinda out-of-topic.

I know that old Japanese books are written in Classical Chinese (or Written
Chinese), like 日本書紀/Nihon Shoki. As I have known, Chinese people learn
Classical Chinese quite well and many of them can understand books written in
it.

So, do Japanese people learn or write in it? How well will Japanese people
learn? :-)




[漢文](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanbun) (Classical Chinese) is taught in 高校
(at least at most private schools). Thus most Japanese should be vaguely
familiar with the ideas of 漢文 (reading characters backwards, inserting
particles, etc.), but this is not enough to be able to read 漢文 properly.
Still, just by looking at the characters, the Japanese will be able to extract
some meaning, of course.




[漢文](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanbun) (Classical Chinese) is taught in 高校
(at least at most private schools). Thus most Japanese should be vaguely
familiar with the ideas of 漢文 (reading characters backwards, inserting
particles, etc.), but this is not enough to be able to read 漢文 properly.
Still, just by looking at the characters, the Japanese will be able to extract
some meaning, of course.

