In the past few decades, corpora have had great impact on linguistics. However, the influence of Chinese characters database on Chinese Philology is still limited. With most Chinese-Japanese characters databases built on the Unicode encoding system, insufficient characters prevent these databases from being used to compare Chinese and Japanese characters from historical perspectives.This paper proposes a new methodology for studying Japanese variants by integrating the database of Japanese characters with a dictionary of Chinese character variants compiled by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. This method will analyze Japan kanji in order to study the modification of Chinese characters used in Japan. This paper hopes to show other researchers how to apply Chinese and Japanese characters databases in studying the comparison of Chinese and Japanese characters.This study not only discusses the database of character variants in the Meiji period, but it also compares the variation of Chinese characters used in Japan. Future research will integrate the database of character variants during Edo, Showa and contemporary time periods, and analyze Chinese characters used in Japan from historical viewpoints.