Not native, but I can read most kanji at 10px. (Some of the more complex ones with 12 or more strokes can be a bit difficult but you can usually guess them from context)
I notice that I have a lot more trouble trying to read Japanese in smaller fonts, but I'm also not that great at reading it to begin with.
At least Japanese has katakana & hiragana, though, which have only a few strokes and are quite prevalent in normal writing. I've seen dense walls of tiny Chinese writing that looked positively impenetrable.
Re:Reading Arabic 'hard for brain'
by lookACamel on Sunday September 05, 2010 @04:41AM
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Yeah but reading it at 10px is a pain in the ass. Unfortunately it seems like everything is 10px.
No, worst case it's like trying to tell appart l, i, j
Anyway, being a native Arabic, I don't see any inherent difficulty in the writing system.
I only encounter a problem if the font is bad or too small, or a combination of both. 10px in most standard Arabic fonts doesn't work very well.
I don't know if Kanji is readable at 10px, but I personally can't read it at that size. Any native Japanese/Chinese to shed some light?