Throughout Japan, store clerks and other service industry workers are trained to use the elaborate honorific speech called “manual keigo.” But change is coming.

Whether you're Japanese or not, chances are you have conflicting feelings about Japan's formal respect-language, keigo. On the one hand, it is one of the most difficult aspects of the language to ...

Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada has announced his intention to step down as a composer for the Tokyo 2020 opening and closing ceremonies after old interviews of bullying behavior resurfaced, days ...

Keigo Higashino, trans. from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith, read by David Pittu. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1195-8.

You've probably heard of blunders by Japanese businessmen in English, ... (712 AD), keigo is a fundamental part of Japanese, said to be as old as the language itself.

In the Japanese version of the anime, Keigo Takami is voiced by Yuichi Nakamura, who has also lent his voice to notable characters like Greed in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Gray Fullbuster ...

Keigo Higashino is Japan’s pre-eminent writer of detective fiction, with over 60 books across 30-plus years of writing. And yet, only about a dozen of these books have been translated into English.

Keigo Higashino’s “Invisible Helix” marks the return of Manabu Yukawa, the physics professor whose brilliant assistance to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police has earned him the nickname ...

Japan’s High-School Readers Enjoy Higashino Keigo; Japan Data. ... Around 13.0% of respondents chose a book after reading an excerpt in a test or a Japanese textbook.

Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada has announced his intention to step down as a composer for the Tokyo 2020 opening and closing ceremonies after old interviews of bullying behavior resurfaced, days ...