The Agency for Cultural Affairs is soliciting public comments about its plans to change romanization rules of the Japanese language for the first time in about 70 years. A subcommittee of the ...

“Aichi” or “Aiti,” which is the preferred spelling? That is one of the questions the Council for Cultural Affairs is now considering as it ponders ways to reduce confusion over the use of two ...

The Agency of Cultural Affairs recently recommended that Kunrei, one of the two competing romanization systems for Japanese, be phased out. The decision is still pending general approval by the ...

Educators in Japan are calling for unification of the country's two main styles of romanization, saying that teaching children both styles is confusing. The call comes as Japan plans to teach ...

Youe Mahn-gunn, a professor emeritus at Sungkyunkwan University who chaired a subcommittee of six scholars established by the National Institute of the Korean Language charged with devising a new ...

The government is reconsidering its official recommendations on how to romanize written Japanese with an eye on making it easier to read for people from other language backgrounds. There are two ...