Discover the Japanese names for the days of the week with their English pronunciations. This guide offers comprehensive support for newcomers and children eager to learn Japanese.

Changes aim to standardise pronunciation of kanji characters and officials can refuse to accept a name deemed to negatively ...

Japan has introduced new rules restricting how names are spelled and pronounced. The new regulations, announced last week, ...

Japan is putting outlandish baby names to rest by cracking down on niche monikers that have become trendy in recent years, ...

Government bans unconventional kanji pronunciations to dissuade parents from giving children quirky and individualistic names ...

If you go to Japan, there’s a chance you might meet someone with an unusual name – such as “Nike,” “Pikachu” or “Pudding.” ...

I.F. Gallery in Tras Street is staging a solo exhibition by contemporary Japanese calligrapher-artist Maaya Wakasugi, who has ...

All kinds of Japanese words for parts of the body have kanji with the “meat-moon” radical, including the brain (脳), shoulders (肩), knees (膝), and arms (腕 ...

Languages: English. Since the 1980s, some parents have given their children names using kanji characters in such a way that creates a unique pronunciation. This has left schools, hospitals and ...

Any beauty expert will tell you that Japan is home to the best SPFs you can buy and when I visited in October 2023, it was ...