Archaeologists working on a Japanese island discovered an ancient shard of earthenware pottery featuring Kanji, the logographic characters that comprise the Japanese system of writing. It's one of the ...

Most people will tell you that the most difficult thing about learning Japanese is dealing with kanji, the written characters originally imported from China. Not only are there more than 2,100 general ...

Kanji Character Of The Year 2023: The temple's head priest, Seihan Mori, reproduced it with a huge brush on a white washi paper canvas. Japan's word of the year is the kanji character for “tax”- a ...

The vast amount of books and documents left by people in the past are very important materials for considering history and culture. However, language and notation change over time, and many old ...

The kanji character 令 (rei), meaning beautiful or graceful, has been chosen as the character best representing the sentiment and events in Japan in 2019. The character was one of two characters for 令和 ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...

A little while back we took a look at the key words of 2013. But there is another lexical popularity contest that takes place at the end of the year—the annual Kanji of the Year award, sponsored by ...

Sekai Project have released Kanji No Owari!, an Android RPG built to help English speakers memorize Kanji. According to the game’s entry on the Android store, Kanji No Owari! “helps the players in ...

Kanji no Owari is a mobile Kanji memorization game from Sekai Project seeking votes on Steam Greenlight for a PC release. According to the publisher, it “is a Japanese language learning game that ...

Proposed legislation to impose restrictions on how names written in kanji characters can and should be read concerns all Japanese whose names are registered with the authorities. This is an issue that ...