As part of the celebrations of our 125th anniversary, we welcomed past exchange students from China, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand to be panelists at an international symposium. The theme ...

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At the Alliance Literature Festival in Bengaluru, the winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize (2020-2021) ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Blackboards in Japan are typically filled with equations and kanji characters. But a group of elementary school graduates in ...

Explore effective Japanese memory techniques designed to enhance student memory and learning retention. Perfect for students ...

Rei enjoys playing tag with his friends at parks and video games and is also learning English conversation and Japanese ...

Struggling with memory retention can be frustrating, but the Japanese have developed powerful techniques that can help even slow learners enhance their memory and learning abilities.

their parallel development paths mean that the same character may have evolved different meanings in Japanese and Chinese. For instance, the commonly used kanji “da zhangfu” means “no problem” in ...

KYOTO--“Zei,” or tax, was selected as the kanji character of 2023, reflecting heated political debate over tax policies. The Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced on ...