So, it comes as a breath of fresh air to turn to our Japanese friends, who hold a refreshingly simple recipe for happiness ... signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in ...

Happiness is a feeling that is hard to quantify ... “Ikigai is a word that means purpose, or your reason for being. It’s a Japanese philosophy, or way of life. Its the thing in our life ...

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 ...

KYOTO--The Japanese public has given its verdict for the kanji character that best sums up events of 2019, and it is “rei,” the first character in the name of the new imperial era, Reiwa.

In Japanese, most given names can be written with kanji, or traditional Chinese characters. A lot of kanji share similar ...

Deities from Japan, China, and India evolved into the Seven Lucky Gods, who are popularly depicted aboard a treasure ship. A pilgrimage of seven temples and shrines, each dedicated to one of the ...

Japan has chosen the symbol meaning "disaster" to define the year 2018. Television stations broadcast the announcement live as the master of an ancient temple in Kyoto wrote the winning term on a ...

Proposed legislation to impose restrictions on how names written in kanji characters can and should be read concerns all Japanese whose names are registered with the authorities. This is an issue ...

He even wanted to go a bit crazier." One of his most famous designs for the singer was a cape covered in Japanese kanji characters. Getty Images One of his most famous pieces for Bowie was a cape ...

No one says, “I do not want to be happy.” Everyone is looking for happiness in different places. Consuming as much as possible is also a source of happiness, points out Prof Samdhong Rinpoche ...

This money is not bringing me a lot of happiness. At times, I have to twist my husband’s arm to spend a little. He loves saving the pennies and watching the millions grow. I ask myself ...