This secret is designed to make you aware of the thousands of foreign words that are used in contemporary Japanese, and to encourage you to start using them.

Why bother to learn hard kanji compounds when you could just use a word from your own language. Don't be heroic, be pragmatic, is the liberating message here.

The picture below provides an example of how convenient Japanese loanwords are. A top hat was originally called a Yama-taka-boshi (literally a "mountain-high-hat"), but it is now called simply toppu hatto.

You can't deny that the Japlish word is a whole lot easier!