Hiragana Flashcards (For printing out on Avery 5371 Business Cards.) This website was co-developed by Andrea Shea (ashea@csus.edu) and Professor Masuyama (kmasuyama@csus.edu) at Sacramento State.

The autumn festival of Munakata Taisha shrine in Fukuoka Prefecture kicked off with the Miare Festival on October 1. The ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

A crane game called "grape catcher" is gaining attention at a tourist farm in the city of Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture. The ...

"Japan's biggest taro stew festival" took place in the city of Yamagata on September 15. A huge pot was filled with local ...

Shohei Ohtani, 30, of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers hit three consecutive home runs and stole two bases in a ...

Written in a mixture of about 130 kanji and hiragana characters on large sheets of paper joined together, the letter humbly requests forgiveness, using phrases such as, “If you would grant me ...

The letters were written with a brush in a cursive style, using the traditional forms of Chinese characters (Kyujitai), as well as Japanese hiragana and katakana characters. Kim said he believes ...