In 2001, a strip of wood was unearthed in the ruins of Fujiwara-kyō, which served as the capital city of imperial Japan ...

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 ...

A body was found off central Japan's Fukui Prefecture on Sept. 30, and authorities are looking into whether it is that of a ...

KYOTO--“Sen,” meaning “war,” is the kanji of the year for 2022, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced Dec. 12. Seihan Mori, chief abbot of the renowned ...

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In the annual vote, the public nominated this kanji character after experiencing a number of natural disasters. Japan has suffered flooding, typhoons, earthquakes and heatwaves in 2018 ...

Mina Shirakawa will be in action at NJPW Royal Quest IV. New Japan Pro-Wrestling has announced multiple matches for their ...

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach announced a series of October events, including cultural workshops, ...

On September 17, which corresponds to August 15 in the old lunar calendar, the harvest moon was visible across the country.

Kanji Kato said young women should have at least three children. He has since retracted his remark, local media reported. Last year the percentage of children in Japan fell to its lowest level ...