Why are Okinawan names difficult for even mainland Japanese speakers? How the languages of the Ryukyu kingdom survived – despite attempts to eradicate them.
What’s so controversial about a country’s name? In the case of “Japan”, 1,300 years of history have led to disputes over just how it ought to be pronounced.
Thanks to the Internet, Japanese language classes are within most everyone’s reach. Learn how they can help improve your Japanese.
How a casual tweet promoting an author’s new book about Japan blew up into a discussion of Western privilege and Orientalism.
Did you know that Japanese once only had four colors? A look at the interesting evolution of color vocabulary in the Japanese language.
The distance learning company U-CAN has announced its list of new and trendy words for 2018. Discover the five words that even had some Japanese people stumped.
A city park employee managed to lose a quarter million dollars because he couldn’t speak English. Krys Suzuki, a former English teacher in Japan, says that’s not uncommon, and discusses why Japan still struggles with the language.
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