While whipping up a Japanese Potato Salad, Thea Tolentino shows her Japanese side by teaching us how to speak Nihonggo!

A large cross-sectional study of 12,499 Japanese workers found that higher adherence to traditional or modified Japanese ...

Listen to Japanese music and read lyrics side-by-side. Why it works: You absorb grammar patterns, vocabulary, and cultural nuance naturally over time—just like kids learning their first language. 4.

SAGA -- A Japanese language school for international students has opened at a long-established inn in Saga Prefecture in southwestern Japan's Kyushu r ...

Japanese was piloted as a second foreign language starting in 2003-04, and as a first foreign language in some schools in 2016-17. In 2021 the Ministry of Education and Training issued the national ...

Yoshiyuki Hara, Ph.D. Yoshiyuki Hara, Ph.D., assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has received the 2025 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in ...

On a previous trip, I’d used Duolingo, a smartphone app with language-learning quizzes and games, to brush up on my Spanish.I was curious how ChatGPT would compare. I often test new AI tools to ...

The 'Open Japanese LLM Leaderboard' has been released, which evaluates and analyzes the performance of Japanese large-scale language models (LLMs) using more than 16 types of NLP (natural language ...

In April, Japan put in place an accreditation process for Japanese-language schools. Seventy-two schools, including those that had yet to open, applied by the mid-May deadline to be screened.

Japanese IT services company Fujitsu has launched Takane, a Japanese-language large language model (LLM) powered by Toronto-based enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup Cohere.. Fujitsu ...