Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...

Regarding Akita Kimi's Dec. 27 letter, 'Another way of writing names': In response to Mikami Takashi's Dec. 20 reasoned plea for limiting Japanese names to surname-first usage in English, Akita's ...

The Japanese convey their hopes for the new year through kakizome, the ritualized first calligraphy writing of the year. Kakizome, meaning "first writing," occurs within the initial days of the year.

For the first time since 2018, King Jim, a Japanese stationery company, is making one of its distraction-free writing tools available in the US.The Pomera D250 launched in Japan in 2022 and while ...