For someone who grew up with Bengali and English, learning Japanese is a fresh and bracing experience, writes Baizid Khoorshid Riaz ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival started on February 4 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It is a famous Japanese festival celebrating snow and ...

At Zao Onsen Ski Resort in the city of Yamagata, ice trees conveying a feeling of winter are at their best. Ice trees are ...

And that, explains Ota, is because written Japanese consists of three visually different elements—kanji, hiragana and katakana ... lines in Japanese and using English subtitles.

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 ...

Hanko designs: what character design to use Hanko characters: From left, kanji, hiragana, katakana, romaji. All represent the name “Alice”. Image courtesy of Kamakura Hanko. The face of the hanko can ...