For someone who grew up with Bengali and English, learning Japanese is a fresh and bracing experience, writes Baizid ...

The Konomiya Naked Festival, known as a bizarre festival, was held at Konomiya Jinja shrine in the city of Inazawa, Aichi ...

Simon Whiteley, the film's designer behind the code, reportedly scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks to ...

The final qualifying round of women's ice hockey for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics was held in the city of Tomakomai, ...

And that, explains Ota, is because written Japanese consists of three visually different elements—kanji, hiragana and katakana. That said, however, the basic rule of writing subtitles is “four ...

No one mentioned that there are three different writing systems – kanji, hiragana and katakana – and it wouldn’t surprise me if a few more are introduced, just to keep us on our toes.

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 ...