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 ...

The workshop was being hosted by the Nagoya-based "Yasashii Nihongo Gekidan" (Easy Japanese troupe), and on this day it featured a triple-header of "short conte" skits on Japanese that is ...

When asked by Tanaka how her group could help him, Nokard said he wanted to get a copy of “Minna no Nihongo,” a textbook he said he used to learn Japanese while in Russia. Nokard, who added ...

Several offices of a Japanese learning center were closed and padlocked by the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Thursday for allegedly offering jobs in Japan without a license from the agency.

But why did subtitles become mainstream in Japan? Subtitle translator Naoko Ota observes, in a collection of essays about her profession titled “Jimaku-ya no Nihongo Tosei Funtoki,” that with ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.