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 ...

KYOTO--Japan has chosen “mitsu" as the kanji of the year, widely cited as part of a social distancing slogan, in a fitting acknowledgement of how the pandemic has held the public at its mercy in ...

This year's Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors that has been campaigning for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Tanaka Terumi ...