RACINE — The Racine Public Library is hosting a series of programs and activities this month focused on Japanese culture. The ...

Japanese students are known for their exceptional memory skills—and it’s not magic, but method. Rooted in ancient techniques ...

Don’t you ever wish you could instantly retain what you read? The Japanese have developed powerful learning techniques over ...

Shukan is a traditional Japanese philosophy that emphasises self-discipline for long-term habits. It focuses on building ...

We have the answer for Chinese characters adopted into the Japanese writing system crossword clue that will help you solve the crossword puzzle you're working ...

Japanese traffic lights are blue instead of the green Americans know, but the reasoning involves some complex linguistic ...

Japan uses three writing systems – Kanji, which is based on Chinese characters, and two other phonetic systems. Names are typically written in Kanji, and this is where the trouble comes in.

When you start studying Japanese, one of the first curiosities that arises is how to write your own name in this fascinating language. After all, names carry identity, history, and culture — and in ...

Japanese writing has its native terms — kanji (derived from hanzi, 漢字), hiragana and katakana. The Korean Hangul, although unique, was designed with hanja (hanzi) as its reference. Even cuneiform and ...

In a country where the sea is already revered as being central to its society, history and culture – the Japanese kanji [writing] symbol for sea is made up of three elements representing water ...

This is partly because they have a leg up when it comes to memorizing the hundreds of Sino-Japanese ideographs, or kanji, that feature prominently on the tests.