Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO Mar 12, 2018
Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki Prefecture has introduced its new traveling pod hotel room, designed to float at sea, to the media.
Language | BILINGUAL Mar 5, 2018
Putting Japan's Olympic success into words
by Yukari Tanaka
Team Japan amassed 13 medals in Pyeongchang, its best ever Winter Games medal haul.
Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO Mar 5, 2018
The government has released new guidelines on the issue of what to do with pets during a disaster.
Language | BILINGUAL Feb 26, 2018
by Mark Schreiber
One way to acquire more kanji is to organize them into a relational database. To show how this works, let's look at some of the many characters using the hand radical.
Language | WELL SAID Feb 26, 2018
Getting things done with just 'dake de' alone
by Akemi Tanahashi and Hitomi Tashiro
Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO Feb 26, 2018
South Korean newspapers praise speedskaters Nao Kodaira and Lee Sang-hwa
Nao Kodaira beat South Korea's Lee Sang-hwa to win the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics women's 500 meter speedskating event.
Language Feb 19, 2018
Reading the Roman alphabet in Japanese isn't as easy as ABC
by Peter Backhaus
Japan's problems with deciding on a standard pronunciation for each letter of the alphabet begin with A (ē or ei) and end with Z (zetto, zii or jii).
Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO Feb 19, 2018
On the fourth day of the Pyeongchang Olympics, Daichi Hara took third place in the men's moguls, bringing the first medal for team Japan.
Language | WELL SAID Feb 19, 2018
Getting things out there in Japanese with 'dasu'
by Akemi Tanahashi and Hitomi Tashiro
introducing some meanings and uses of the verb 出(だ)す and its compound verbs.
Language | BILINGUAL Feb 12, 2018
A salaryman is left blinking in the dust left by the #MeToo charge
by Kaori Shoji
One Japanese salaryman laments the changes the #MeToo movement has had on relationships between men and women in his workplace.
Language | WELL SAID Feb 12, 2018
When thinking of using 'omou,' remember the subject dictates the form
by Akemi Tanahashi and Hitomi Tashiro
Introducing ways of using the verb 思(おも)う (to think) correctly. ...