Six research institutes were involved in developing the Multi-Database Search System for Historical Chinese Characters, the first of its kind that collates old kanji from various regions and ...

Shiki himself played baseball and was inducted into the Japanese hall of fame in a special berth. This poet of the Meiji era ...

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Japan’s Tokyo University was criticised for embedding the ’Tiananmen’ keyword in its admissions page, restricting access for ...

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A mum tried to be creative by combining two "traditional" names to give her daughter a name that was "creative" but she ...

One mum combined two popular names to create a unique moniker for her daughter – but soon found out it had a very unfortunate ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Meet the mistress of Nara’s last geisha house — a remarkable woman who’s on a mission to keep this complex tradition alive in ...

Japanese artist Bunta Inoue has created a hand-painted artwork depicting Bobby, President Prabowo Subianto's beloved cat, ...