Good news for Japanese learners. Kadokawa Corporation has published three new books about the Japanese language. The three books are part of the のびーる国語 nobiru kokugo (stretch your Japanese language ...

Most people will tell you that the most difficult thing about learning Japanese is dealing with kanji, the written characters originally imported from China. Not only are there more than 2,100 general ...

Ancient writing characters that date to the first century AD are being taught in a decidedly 21st-century technological programs developed by two DePauw students. Kanji characters were developed in ...

Yoshimi Kojima, director of the Center for Intercultural Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, who led the development of the kanji learning app "TUFS Multiling" is seen at the university in ...

Are you eager to dive into the world of the Japanese language? One of the first essential steps is mastering the days of the week. This article provides a comprehensive guide specifically designed for ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for ...

There are plenty of dead words in languages all over the world, but can the same be said about ghost words? Floating around the murky regions of digitized Unicode values are anywhere between 60 and ...

When it comes to the qualities captured in quintessential Japanese baby names, nature, virtue, depth of character, and hopes ...