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 ...

A Japanese novelist on Thursday became her country's first to win a major British award for crime and mystery writing, ...

The three Japanese writing systems include: Hiragana is the most commonly used script in everyday Japanese writing. It consists of 48 characters, which have curved shapes.

Many Japanese are accustomed to writing their names in English with the family name last, and while the government has changed how it refers to the Prime Minister and other officials, ...

Why Japan Is So Difficult to Write About. The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place. To accompany one of this issue’s stories, ...

He started writing novels in Japanese and translating them into Romanian around 2018. “For me, learning a language is a hobby," Saito said. "It’s not that I learn the language for my work.