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 ...

Human rights groups call for the end of the death penalty in Japan after Iwao Hakamada, who spent 45 years in solitary ...

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

A Japanese court has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, ...

Vandals spray painted graffiti on a mausoleum for Ryukyu Kingdom royalty here, known as “Urasoe Yodore,” officials said.

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BEIJING – A letter supposedly written by the Japanese father of a boy fatally stabbed in China said the actions of a few “vile individuals with twisted minds” should not harm bilateral ties ...

After some time, this has been answered as another post has arisen on the page clarifying everything which reads, “This is to ...

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I watched the ABC special “Lahaina Rising ... Most others who identify as locals are descendants of the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who came to work the plantations.

The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything else. Children need to learn each letter and the ...