SOCIETY
Japan Has The World’s Strongest Passport (That Few People Use)
Japan's passport is one of the strongest in the world. So why do only one in four Japanese citizens have one?
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SOCIETY
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
What Do I Call You, Honey? Japanese and the Language of Marriage
In Japan, what you call your partner in front of other people can be a confusing question - and one laden with…
SOCIAL MEDIA
Living Unapologetically: Tweet Sparks Conversation on Language Towards Japan’s Disabled
"The truth is you're a burden." Learn how one woman's comments about Japanese attitudes towards disabled citizens sparked a nasty backlash -…
FEATURED
Why Some Westerners in Japan Never Learn Japanese
How a casual tweet promoting an author's new book about Japan blew up into a discussion of Western privilege and Orientalism.
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Colors in Japanese: Not as Black and White as You’d Think
Did you know that Japanese once only had four colors? A look at the interesting evolution of color vocabulary in the Japanese…
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
The Five Hot New Japanese Words Even Many Japanese Don’t Know
The distance learning company U-CAN has announced its list of new and trendy words for 2018. Discover the five words that even…
JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Why Does Japan Struggle With English?
A city park employee managed to lose a quarter million dollars because he couldn't speak English. Krys Suzuki, a former English teacher…
FOOD
Looks Like Chicken: My First Time (Accidentally) Eating Horse in Japan
The first time I ate raw horse in Tokyo, it was all a big linguistic misunderstanding.