An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher has found that there are differences in the content of newspaper articles from ...

In the picture book, the lion tells Mr. Barbar that his mane is tangled and he is in trouble. Untangle is "hodoku" in Japanese. Chokichoki-- This is an onomatopoeia used when cutting something ...

Mokumoku-- This is an onomatopoeic word mainly used with smoke ("kemuri" in Japanese) to describe rising smoke. In the picture book, when the tanuki transforms, smoke is emitted, and that is where ...

Mount Fuji, the tallest peak in Japan with a height of 3,776 meters (12,389 feet), is an active stratovolcano that last ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

Then, the percentage of respondents who did not read even one book per month was 46.1%. A decade later, in 2018, that figure had risen very slightly to 47.3%. Then the six years that followed saw what ...

Known as the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan's civilization dates as far back as 30,000 years. Today, the archipelago seamlessly blends its rich history with its ultra-modern present. And while its ...

Godzilla was born in the era of Japan's post-war grief, but the enormous monstrosity has come a long way since then.

A grassroots Japanese organization made up of atomic bomb ... it seeks to prevent Western countries from supporting Ukraine. A book published this month from Watergate reporter Bob Woodward ...

“There’s a deeper meaning behind the daily lives of what these Japanese immigrants went through,” she says. “There’s a deeper message that my dad was actually trying to convey.” The ...