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Not only Chinese, Japanese also went through simplification after WWII, which also meant making quite a bit number of kanji obsolete.
Which over time proved that the number that got obsolete was too big, so over time a bunch of them got re-introduced, though in their original form (so without the post-war simplification).
Also, I'd rather say that less than 1% of Japan can speak English, 15% seems a bit too much.
I guess the 15% includes foreigners and/or Japanese people who are so bad at English that they need to use Goolag Translate most of the time.