Foreign words undergo transformation in various ways when they enter another language. The following are some of the technical terms that linguists use to describe such changes. All languages have ...
Language doesn’t stand still — it absorbs, adapts and occasionally gets nudged along by pop culture. According to The Japan ...
In that most dingy of Japanese official buildings called the Gaimusho, a flimsy affair of wood and beaverboard, whose shabbiness is accentuated by the grandiose Navy Office across the way, Japan’s new ...
FILE - In this Feb. 3. 2014 file photo, a visitor looks at portraits of late former "comfort women" who were forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II, at the House ...
One of the first things you learn when studying Japanese is that the language incorporates four different styles of writing: the Chinese-derived characters known as kanji, the basic phonetic script of ...
Learning a few basic Japanese words and expressions can make communication easier, help you engage with people, and enhance ...