Japan has introduced new rules restricting how names are spelled and pronounced. The new regulations, announced last week, ...

Government bans unconventional kanji pronunciations to dissuade parents from giving children quirky and individualistic names ...

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 ...

During the two blocks you will learn both the hiragana and katakana phonetic syllabaries (47 symbols each) and about 130 kanji. You will also participate directly in the language through dialogues and ...

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In Japanese writing, these readings are typically provided using phonetic symbols to clarify pronunciation. Yuji Ogihara, associate professor in the department of psychology at Aoyama Gakuin ...

TOKYO — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he’s Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 191 kilograms (421 pounds) and he is the first ...

Onosato Daiki became the first Japanese man in eight years to be named a yokozuna, or grand champion, the highest title in the sport. By Victor Mather Sumo is Japan’s national sport, steeped in ...

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising Update 2.11 is now live, adding support for the Galleon DLC fighter, bug fixes, and more.

The Japanese F-35B BX-1 successfully completed its first test flight from Lockheed Martin Facility at NAS Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, on May 12, 2025. Our friends and contributors ...