Reinterpreting Japan's ancient Ateji with a modern sensibility, the lyrical art of weaving sound and meaning together ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...

"Sen," the kanji for war or battle, was chosen by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation to represent 2022. The foundation's 28th annual poll collected votes cast by the general public to ...

Who invented kanji? The truth remains a mystery. Yet a legend from a neighboring land tells of an ancient sage named Cangjie as the creator of the first Chinese characters. According to the tale, ...

Ancient writing characters that date to the first century AD are being taught in a decidedly 21st-century technological programs developed by two DePauw students. Kanji characters were developed in ...

Famously one of life’s only two certainties, “tax” has been chosen by the Japanese public as its word of the year, reflecting rising costs of living and much-discussed tax reforms in the world’s third ...