A party was held to celebrate the first birthday of twin white tigers, Aika and Iori, who were born on October 14 last year ...

Japanese is a language with lots of onomatopoeia. A wide range of onomatopoeia in the Japanese language, from noises made by animals to expressions of feelings, is explained by audio. Please click ...

Now it's time to explain the katsu part. This is a shortening of the Japanese rendering of the English word "cutlet" when it ...

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

E-commerce marketplace giant Rakuten Group Inc. announced in 2010 that English would replace Japanese inside the company. Business meetings, along with internal memos, are in principle exclusively ...

Our new TV program helps you learn about Japan and the Japanese language through simple and easy Japanese news. You will learn not only Japanese expressions but also the latest situation of Japan.

The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese word saburau, meaning "to serve," and was first used in A.D. 702 to describe mid-to-low-ranking court administrators and, later, armed imperial guards.

A Cabinet notification issued in 1954 called for using the “kunrei” style of romanization when writing Japanese words in English. But the notice also allowed for exceptions with the Hepburn ...

Autumn leaves are at their best at the Tateyama mountain range in Japan's Northern Alps. Around the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine ...

A conversation with John Nathan, a biographer of Yukio Mishima, who translated the story “From the Wilderness” in this week’s ...

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 ...

It works in exactly the same way, and once Conversation Mode is open you tap the Face to Face icon at the top of the screen.