I wish I could understand Japanese

Yes. Japanese uses (I believe) traditional Chinese characters.

Kanji is the Japanese adaptation of the Chinese written language.

Trippy. -Is a total Japanoob-

Also: Too many Asian languages to choose to learn. For starters, there's my native Filipino (Tagalog) and Fukien/Hokkien Chinese. Then, there's the Cantonese Chinese that takes up the majority of my school's Chinese population. Also, there's Korean and Japanese, which both sound really interesting.