Weekly Japanese Idiom: “Keikou-gyugo” — Better the Beak of a Rooster Than the Rump of a Bull If you’re at a crossroads in life and you’re looking for direction, this week’s idiom…
‘Sanmitsu,’ ‘Ai no Fujichaku,’ ‘Kimetsu no Yaiba’: What Were Japan’s Top Buzzwords for 2020? Since 1984, Japan has been gathering information on what its people are talking about. But…
10 of the Most Useful Japanese Onomatopoeia There are 4,500 onomatopoeia in the Japanese language, which is more than the number of kanji required…
Japanese Words We Can’t Translate: Komorebi According to the Oxford Dictionary, there were an estimated 170,000 words in use in the…
Learning Japanese: The Worst Katakana You Need To Know As a man who has always regarded katakana as a lifelong enemy, the not so…
5 More New Year’s Resolutions to Make if You Live in Japan New Year, New Me. A mantra for the changing of the year as people far…
Beijing restaurant displays sentiment in inflammatory sign Online criticism erupted over an inflammatory sign barring Japanese, Vietnamese and Filipinos from a restaurant…
Australian schools get Asian language learning boost from Gillard Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a plan Sunday to promote “Asia literacy” as part of…
Yohji Yamamoto Y3 Spring Collection Unveiled Y-3 answers London’s call for its Spring/Summer 2012 collection, in honor of the host city’s upcoming…
iGeek: An Interview With Technologist Morinosuke Kawaguchi Morinosuke Kawaguchi is proud to be a geek. His latest English book, Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist’s Guide to Technology and Design, takes readers on a tour of Japan’s Otaku sub-culture.
