Marie Kondo reflects on some elements of Japanese culture—kintsugi, umami, the kyureki calendar—that have informed both her ...

From artist Miya Ando, Water of the Sky, A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese wor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from Tokyo — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will deliver a speech Saturday on the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to U.S. forces in World War II. The text will be closely ...

Emoji, karaoke, futon, ramen: Words we wouldn't have if it weren't for the Japanese language. The complex language that incorporates elements of Chinese, English, German and Portuguese is on full ...

A San Francisco celebrity chef is leading the charge.