M. Yamazaki, A. W. Ellis, C. M. Morrison, and M. A. Lambon Ralph in 1997 (see record [rid]1997-05966-008[/rid]) demonstrated that written and spoken age-of-acquisitions had a stronger effect on the naming latency of single Kanji words than any other variable including familiarity. The present study was designed to reanalyze M. Yamazaki, et al.'s data, using the ratings of written and spoken age-of-acquisitions and visual and auditory familiarities taken from the Nippon Telephone and Telegram Corporation lexical database. This analysis showed that visual familiarity exerted a stronger independent effect on naming latency than two types of age-of-acquisitions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)