i am unable to speak for middle eastern or cyrillic languages due to a shameful unfamiliarity, but as for western and a majority eastern languages, the core of the japanese language is substantially, yet casually, more capable

japanese is comprised of three alphabets:

    kanji : an enormous, complex, and ancient chinese character set
    katakana and hiragana: syllabic runes that bridge japanese phonemes to its own complex characters or even other languages

the japanese have a japanese numeral system but also use arabic numerals

what's more is these elements of the language can all appear on the same poster one walks by while walking down the street

and yet still more, those elements can all be meant to be read in different directions

japanese texts are written horizontally and vertically

japansese books can be printed and read either page flipped right to left, or similarly to the west, left to right

one may argue a dislike for or refuse the use of emojis but it could be said that one of the most literate cultures in the world looked at their tools of communication and felt them wanting

It's not kids these days, it's always been like this for everyone.