The entry for the word “assho” (overwhelming victory) in the Genius Japanese-English Dictionary features an example sentence that goes, “The Tigers overwhelmed the Giants.” And as an ...

BRUSSELS--Twenty-three Japanese words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary for the March 2024 update, and some entry definitions are bound to strike Japanese readers as downright odd.

Tokini Andy is the most traditional starting point on this list, and though working your way through textbooks and kanji lessons will keep you away from games and anime, it will lay a foundation. For ...

In spite of the fact that homebrewing is still illegal, the Japanese government allowed for inns and restaurants in special ...

A ceremony to light a wood-burning stove was held at the Kobe Municipal Rokkosan Elementary School in Hyogo Prefecture on October 23. Early preparatio Full article Youths argue for right to live ...

We use words every day. They’re like air. When not speaking, we think, conspire, and hope in internal monologues. Even while ...

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

And now that South Korean influence has reached the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The "accepted authority on the English language" has added 26 new words of Korean origin to its latest edition.

Japanese tech companies are increasingly making a difficult but necessary pivot to an English-first policy in the push to keep up with competitors overseas. The trend is particularly pronounced ...

Around the world in 101 essays. These essays are an ‘expanded and augmented’ version of Shashi Tharoor’s World of Words column in the Khaleej ...

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I GREW up in Manila — a Tagalog-speaking area, needless to say. In a middle-class neighborhood, everyone spoke Tagalog.