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Because it's a crutch. It doesn't take that long to learn Hiragana. Ten days if you're a quick learner, a month if you're not. Japanese is written in JAPANESE. Not romanized letters! Romaji can even be detrimental to learning real Japanese due to particles, silent vowels, long vowels, and so on -- many of which are written improperly in romaji. For example, "Tokyo" actually has two extra letters when it's spelled in Japanese - とうきょう, not ときょ. Anyone who won't/can't learn Kana strikes me as someone who isn't serious at all about learning Japanese.