Views from Tokyo and Chiba: Have you made any memorable gaffes while learning another language?
Japanese and foreign nationals share their favorite embarrassing missteps on the long journey to second-language fluency.
It's the season of love: Won't someone please grab hold of my chin?
In Japan these days, it can seem as if love itself is on the decline — and that no one really cares.
An old CD single by SMAP returned to No. 1 in the charts as fans alarmed by news of the group's apparently imminent breakup launched a campaign to show their support for the group.
Words about sentences: the Japanese vocab of crime and punishment
Navigating the terms and kanji involved in the penal process in Japan can be a trial in itself.
Living up to great expectations with 'dake atte'
A record 19.73 million foreigners visited Japan in 2015, a 47.3 percent increase over the total for 2014.
Tributes have been paid to a select group of British schoolboys who studied Japanese during World War II and later went on to build enduring ties between the two countries. Dignitaries gathered at London's School of Oriental and African Studies on Monday to recall the ...
Taking a stand and speaking from it with 'to shite'
A famous gorilla in Nagoya is starring in a video to promote the city's municipal job recruitment effort.
Look to 'senpai' to help take your Japanese reading to the next level
If not for the generosity of several brave and patient souls, I would never have developed the foundation necessary to read on my own.
There are many way-zu in Japanese to show there's more than one
In contrast to English, in Japanese the grammatical marking of plurals is optional, meaning the whole matter is dealt with a lot less systematically.
Just passing through the domains of 'tori' and 'dori'
Introducing various meanings and uses of 通(とお)り, the nominalized form of the verb 通る (to pass by/go through).
