Amidst all of the controversy flaring up in Japan over “kirakira names,” the question has been raised concerning a rather peculiar name trait shared by many old Japanese women. A large number of aging ...

Katakana is a part of the written Japanese language used for foreign terms and names. Learn this script to recognize many familiar words from other languages. The straight lines and sharp angles of ...

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 ...

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Then you have come to the right place! For years, I have been interested in Japanese culture. Now that I have visited the country and made plenty of Japanese friends, I decided to master the language.

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 ...

In this photo from the German Olympic soccer team's official Instagram account, players are seen traveling while wearing polo shirts with "Germany" written in Japanese katakana phonetic characters.

I remember setting up a lesson for some second-year junior high school students a few years back. It was all rote by then; I had been teaching pretty much the same lesson for six years running. This ...

You would think that after a few decades of owning a name, you'd have a good idea of how to pronounce and write it. Then you arrive in Japan and suddenly you're not so sure. Welcome to the wonderful ...