A person who wants to learn Japanese is soon faced with a seemingly irreducible task: that of learning 2,136 kanji (the jōyō kanji list, which contains the characters used in publishing media). For a ...

Break up the monotony of traditional language learning and bring some entertainment value to your Japanese kanji studies on the Nintendo Switch with media5’s latest release in “edu-tainment”: Greco’s ...

From kanji memorization tricks to anime-fuelled listening skills, Japanese learning thrives when culture and context meet. New research shows that where and how you study can matter more than your ...

Good news for Japanese learners. Kadokawa Corporation has published three new books about the Japanese language. The three books are part of the のびーる国語 nobiru kokugo (stretch your Japanese language ...

There’s something that I love about D3’s Simple series other than the games being really cheap. A lot of times they go on the road less traveled make risky titles like the Origin of caveman where you ...

Kanji can appear bewilderingly complex to the learner, but many are made up of a combination of simpler parts. Creating stories based on the meaning of those parts is a useful mnemonic technique.

For a lot of people, kanji is about on par with natto. A huge sticky mess, difficult to consume, and not nearly as tasty as it is troublesome. Anyway, me personally, I never wanted to spend years ...

Yoshimi Kojima has long wanted to create a fun way of teaching kanji to children of overseas origins. The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies associate professor has finally hit upon a solution.

Instead of 26 letters, Japanese children learn more than 2000 characters – Kanji – during their school careers. An insight ...

Last fall, I reported the results of my search for kanji-learning gold in cyberspace. Today, in this second report, I am happy to inform you that the panning has never been better. My bookshelf sags ...