The pig learns from the tanuki how to transform itself and tries to turn into a tanuki, but his face remains that of a pig.

A conversation with John Nathan, a biographer of Yukio Mishima, who translated the story “From the Wilderness” in this week’s ...

A "picture book picnic" event was held in the city of Osaka on October 12. The aim is for children and parents to interact, ...

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A pro-Donald Trump march took place in the Japanese city of Osaka at the weekend. Participants in the event wore MAGA caps and carried a giant mikoshi – a portable statue or shrine often part of ...

Having knowledge and familiarity with the Japanese language is a big plus to begin trading stocks directly in Japan, although some brokers can provide English language support for their foreign ...

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 ...

A "picture book picnic ... material for anyone studying Japanese who has learned hiragana and katakana. We encourage beginners to read the article in English followed by Japanese, or vice versa ...

But let’s set expectations: You shouldn’t expect to play Metaphor: ReFantazio without English subtitles anytime soon. For the past three years, I’ve been gradually learning Japanese.

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. The very first question players of Metaphor: ReFantazio will ask themselves before jumping into the epic adventure is: Should I play the ...

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

Picture book author Keiko Sena died from old age at her home in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday, people familiar with the matter have said. She was 92. A Tokyo native, Sena, whose real ...