For someone who grew up with Bengali and English, learning Japanese is a fresh and bracing experience, writes Baizid ...

Simon Whiteley, the film's designer behind the code, reportedly scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks to ...

Learning a new language can feel like climbing a mountain—challenging, yet incredibly rewarding. Japanese, with its rich cultural heritage and fascinating writing systems, is no exception. If you’re ...

I, rather rashly, began learning Japanese online last year ... No one mentioned that there are three different writing systems – kanji, hiragana and katakana – and it wouldn’t surprise ...

And that, explains Ota, is because written Japanese consists of three visually different elements—kanji, hiragana and katakana. That said, however, the basic rule of writing subtitles is “four ...

Ichiro, 51, who boasts a total of 4,367 hits in Japan and the United States, is the first Japanese player to be inducted ... I wouldn’t have become Ichiro in katakana,” said Ichiro, referring to ...

Hanko designs: what character design to use Hanko characters: From left, kanji, hiragana, katakana, romaji. All represent the name “Alice”. Image courtesy of Kamakura Hanko. The face of the hanko can ...

The engraving can be done in kanji, hiragana, katakana, or the Latin alphabet. An engraver personalizes a knife ... the so-called Santoku (Japanese home-use -style knife). Its shape, which is like ...