two different languages。and the japanese is no rhyme.

I am leaning both and to be honest Japanese sounds nothing like Chinese. Its very different. Japanese sounds a lot more like english, and of course there are no tones in Japanese, though you must look out for the word pauses!!

yes,they are two different languages. 1)maybe have the same similar chinese characters, but different sounds or meaning. 2)the sounds of Japanese is simple than Chinese,there is no retroflex sounds in Japanese. 3) More voiced sounds in Japanese, and few in Chinese 4)~~~~

And the Japanese pronounce "r"and "l" in the same sound. But chinese maybe the difficult language in the Asia.Even the people from other country in Asia.

There are two different languages.But the Japanese write some character in another means. In the history,the Japanese government use the Chinese characters for a long time.