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That was interesting, didn't know they had an official romanji system and that it wasn't the de facto standard.
This is basically just them officially giving up on the other system because no one uses it.
IIRC, it’s a holdover of a failed Meiji-era proposal to “modernise” Japanese by replacing its writing system with the Latin alphabet. (The one advantage it has over Hepburn is that it is unambiguous, and any Japanese text represented in it can be transliterated back into kana without guesswork.)