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 ...

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...

Hiragana Flashcards (For printing out on Avery 5371 Business Cards.) This website was co-developed by Andrea Shea (ashea@csus.edu) and Professor Masuyama (kmasuyama@csus.edu) at Sacramento State.

Starting this week, "Easy Japanese news in translation" will be published every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Movie subtitles have been considered a uniquely Japanese custom. Although foreign films are also shown with vernacular ...

The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...

Katakana Flashcards (For printing out on Avery 5371 Business Cards.) This website was co-developed by Andrea Shea (ashea@csus.edu) and Professor Masuyama (kmasuyama@csus.edu) at Sacramento State.

He was worried from the outset. "The language has three writings – kanji, hiragana and katakana," said Dustin. "But I only know hiragana." Dustin Coronado from the Philippines learning basic ...

A total of 27 first and second graders from Wakayama Prefecture's Susami Municipal Susami Elementary School visited "Adventure World" in the prefectur･･･ ...

This is perfect material for anyone studying Japanese who has learned hiragana and katakana. We encourage beginners to read the article in English followed by Japanese, or vice versa, to test ...

The letters were written with a brush in a cursive style, using the traditional forms of Chinese characters (Kyujitai), as well as Japanese hiragana and katakana characters. Kim said he believes ...