During their six years in elementary school, Japanese children learn over 1,000 kanji. In this time, they greatly increase their reading sophistication, moving from picture books to short novels and ...

Kanji is a logographic alphabet part of the Japanese writing system. Windows 7 enables non-Japanese computers to virtualize Japanese language support; you can write in kanji on your keyboard even if ...

One of the most intimidating things about learning Japanese is the writing system. There are three different sets of characters you’ll need to become proficient in, and while two of them, hiragana and ...

In this short video I have fun with Japanese homophones that all sound almost the same but use different kanji and meanings.

KYOTO--Fittingly and not surprisingly, "kin," or gold, was selected as the kanji most capturing the mood of 2021, the year ...