are daunting enough without the added burden of a writing system that combines kanji with two sets of phonetic characters. For Asian students with no background in Chinese or Sino-Japanese ...

For illustrator and fiber artist Tomoko Kubo, the hiragana lettering system sparked a playful, ongoing series of embroideries ...

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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 ...

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A statue of the dog character Gyoza-ken Jubee, dressed in a gyoza dumpling costume, was unveiled at JR Utsunomiya Station in ...

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Many of the strongest characters in anime are from Japan. These include skilled characters like Goto Ryuji and Satoru Gojo.

The peace preservation law, which, after animated discussion both in and out of the Diet, was finally passed and officially promulgated today. The principal clauses of the law are as follows: In a ...