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 ...

The new JR Matsuyama Station building in the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, opened on September 29. It was the first ...

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

Snack maker Yaokin, based in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, announced on September 24 that it will raise the price of "Umaibo" from 12 ...

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

That’s the idea behind KanaChord, which generates Unicode macros to render Japanese Kana characters using chords — pressing multiple keys at once as you would on a piano. The Japanese writing ...

Japanese kickboxing superstar Kana Morimoto has put pen to paper on a deal to compete in ONE Championship. The 32-year-old striker has long been waiting to test her evolving arsenal against the ...

Japan-based Sekisui Chemical, a developer of a roll-to-roll process for manufacturing perovskite PV panels, announced an agrivoltaic project in partnership with Terra, an engineering, procurement ...

saying the Japanese fighter would “never be ready” for the fight. Still, he said he would be “supportive if Kana wants to test her skills against Meksen in ONE”. Chatri has long been ...

The song of this week is 'EYES ON YOU' by Kana Nishino. This song makes it high up in the Japanese weekly hit charts Oricon. Koji Asano, a Melbourne-based Japanese voice actor and musician ...

The sealing system was leak- and draft-­free in our test car, and the creak-and-groan gremlins that come built in with aftermarket T-tops never raised their ugly voices. Datsun has generously ...