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Ya I would say the dual pronunciations are the hardest thing about Japanese. Harder than memorizing the characters, which, from what I hear, becomes quite a bit easier once you get the various common patterns down. And I've read that learning the correct stroke order makes alternate fonts and cursive much easier to decipher. It gives a direction to the form that you can follow, and probably helps to tie everything together coherently when you're faced with a bunch of seemingly random strokes. But I'm not that far yet, so I don't know.
I believe Kanji are all Chinese characters. I suppose that could make Chinese harder or easier, depending on how you look at it.
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