After 71 years, the Cabinet is ready to do something just about everyone else did several decades ago.
learning japanese
Students studying Japanese as a second language in-country hits historic high, majority of teachers are unpaid volunteers.
We need to tell you to take a look before the new slang of today outruns us all… eh ho eh ho…
Kiryu seems like the kind of guy who should know that effort is never meaningless, and this time is no exception.
NAFCA text covers the skills, both in drawing and speaking Japanese, that you’ll need to start an anime artist career in Japan.
Survey results show big gap in how younger and older respondents interpreted this seemingly simple phrase.
Models and readers of gyaru fashion magazine Egg vote on the top 10 gyaru words/phrases of the year.
An adorable way to start reading Japanese, or just to spend some more time with the lovable Sumikko Gurashi cast.
Yamagata dialect can be very different from the Japanese you learned in school, but this illustrated guide will have people telling you “Jondagodo!” in no time.
With sakura in bloom, a trio of dancing Pokémon give us a moment of beauty, something to smile about, and a Japanese language lesson.
Having never left Japan before, he was worried his English wasn’t good enough, but a coworker knew just what to say.
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