In Japan, who do you think you are? Fun and games with foreign names in katakana
Katakana renderings of non-Japanese names can cause a raft of problems if spelling issues are allowed to fester.
A company freshman's sharp learning curve
The first Monday in April — April 2 this year — sees tens of thousands of 生き生きして元気な新入社員 (ikiiki shite genki na shinnyū shain, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed newly hired company employees) — also referred to as フレシュマン (fureshuman, freshmen) — decked out in their new ...
Taking an interest in describing hobbies
Shōhin-ni tsuite go-setsumei-shitara, kyōmi-o shimeshite-kudasaimashita. (When I explained our product, they showed interest in it.) ...
The Japanese team Hakuto participated in the first private international lunar exploration competition and on March 26 carried out a test run of the unmanned probe, Sorato, in the Tottori sand dunes. This was the final model's first outdoor test.
Japanese women find strength in Me Too
The Me Too movement has arrived in Japan at last, and more Japanese women are opening up about issues surrounding sexual harassment.
Showing some style using 'shiki' and 'fu'
Explaining the difference between the compound nouns X式 (しき) and X風(ふう), both of which mean "in the style of X."
Fukuoka Prefecture is offering cherry blossom viewers the option to reserve a prepaid space for cherry blossom viewing in Tenjin Central Park in the city of Fukuoka.
In written Japanese, it's punctuation, but not as we know it
Needless to say, Japanese has its own set of punctuation marks, and a number of special rules regarding their usage.
Joining up contradictory conditions in Japanese with 'ippo'
Fudan-no seikatsu-wa setsuyaku-suru ippō, o-iwaigoto-wa hade-ni suru. (They economize in their daily lives on the one hand but pull out all the stops for celebrations.) ...
A rally is held in front of the Diet to protest the approval of falsified documents concerning school operator Moritomo Gakuen.
Cheat your way to better Japanese with walkthrough video game guides
Learners of Japanese, why not try offsetting the guilt of cheating at video games by changing your device's settings to Nihongo and checking Japanese online walkthrough guides?
More than one way to use 'ippo' in Japanese
Looking at the noun 一方 (いっぽう, one side/the other side) and its related expressions. ...
