As a teenager, Kaoru Akagawa couldn’t read her Japanese grandmother’s letters, but she put it down to her unclear handwriting. Over a decade later, Kaoru realized her grandmother hadn’t been a poor ...

I recently encountered a new term that's a real mouthful: IT依存性漢字健忘症 (IT izonsei kanji kenbōshō, kanji amnesia due to dependence on information technology). The word acknowledges that the ...

Archaic forms of kanji that are difficult to decipher in the modern age are being compiled into an online image retrieval system so scholars and others can gain a better grasp of what people were ...

Exhibition of Buddhist sutras, though written in Chinese for a religion imported from India, shows how Japanese artists made them their own The Lotus Sutra (chapters 20-23) shows an unusual variation ...

Join the expert Japanese instructors at the Tennessee Foreign Language institute for three language workshops, suitable for Japanese learners at all levels! This event is in honor of Japan Week ...

On March 20, 2015, Kanazawa Shōko made an inspirational presentation at the Fourth World Down Syndrome Day Conference, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, concluding her remarks with ...