The concept of ikigai has gained popularity in recent years, and while the term has been used in Japan for centuries, the ...

Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. Want to learn ...

In the 1960s, Japanese books became immensely popular in South Korea. Interestingly, Korean newspapers often wrote about this ...

For many Japanese language enthusiasts, anime is not just an entertaining hobby—it’s also an incredible resource for learning ...

With other forms, you might need a much deeper understanding of the language to get the point at all; a fairly large proportion of Japanese humor is in fact verbal humor. And inevitably, there is ...

The Japan Foundation, an institution under the jurisdiction of the foreign ministry, surveyed institutions offering Japanese language study. It found that more than 3.7 million people were ...

Our Japanese modules are open to all students (for credits or not), members of staff, and members of the public. Available on a semester basis (11-12 weeks), the modules aim to develop language ...

A government survey on the Japanese language revealed how new onomatopoeic words like mofu mofu (fluffy) are making their way into the lexicon and how people are using them. Japan’s Agency for ...

Knee-jerk criticism of Ishiba misses is that politicians in Japan, like any democracy, make campaign promises that change ...

Getting to that point took an immense amount of effort. Moofah recorded 45GB worth of cutscene audio, transcribed it, wrote it phonetically in Monster Hunter Language, then wrote the Japanese, and ...

The head of small opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi was accused of discrimination against foreigners after he posted a video of himself deliberately speaking broken Japanese.