This is a radio program for learning Japanese through news about Japan. We pick up stories spoken in plain Japanese to explain the background along with some of the phrases used.

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Our new TV program helps you learn about Japan and the Japanese language through simple and easy Japanese news. You will learn not only Japanese expressions but also the latest situation of Japan.

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

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

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 with scissors. "Chokichoki" is used when ...

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

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

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 ...

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Students on climate change, abortion, gun violence and more. By The Learning Network CreditMichael Dantasmichael Dantas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot ...