Yellow small chrysanthemums, used to garnish sashimi and other dishes, are being harvested in the city of Toyohashi, Aichi ...

Grass puffers were observed laying eggs in a sea cove in the Tainamachi district of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. From April ...

He grew up speaking Japanese, but he couldn’t read or write the language. Japanese, which he said has three different writing ...

Japanese, which he said has three different writing systems (Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana), was “insanely difficult” to learn, he said. Kansas Jayhawks infielder Chase Diggins is playing a ...

Oxford Brookes University graduate Lois Edmunds explains how a Japanese Studies degree is more worth it than most think.

Japanese writing has its native terms — kanji (derived from hanzi, 漢字), hiragana and katakana. The Korean Hangul, although unique, was designed with hanja (hanzi) as its reference. Even cuneiform and ...

addressing specific linguistic challenges such as mixed character sets (hiragana, katakana and kanji), omitted subjects, and nuanced honorific expressions common in Japanese business communication.

known as kanji, on many storefront signs. Elsewhere are words written in a simplified Japanese syllabary (hiragana), and also in another syllabary (katakana), generally used for transliterating ...

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 ...