"Kodansha's Katakana Workbook" is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as efficiently as ...

Gothic based on different ideas such as Hiragana which makes horizontal and vertical lines the design basics, Hiragana which feels warm handwriting · Katakana of sharp image · Smart design and high ...

I remember setting up a lesson for some second-year junior high school students a few years back. It was all rote by then; I had been teaching pretty much the same lesson for six years running. This ...

Amidst all of the controversy flaring up in Japan over “kirakira names,” the question has been raised concerning a rather peculiar name trait shared by many old Japanese women. A large number of aging ...

If I noticed this, I might have handled French better. Many foreign language words entering Japan are written in katakana. Since it will be translated into Japanese at that point, I did not care what ...