A kira Toriyama put careful consideration into making sure that every symbol in Dragon Ball has meaning, whether a character ...

Kanji are symbols that represent words in Japanese. They can stand alone, or they can combine with other kanji or kana to create more words and ideas. They are descended from Chinese characters, which ...

KARACHI, July 15: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan was presented 1,000 origami cranes, symbolizing peace wishes, by Japan's consul general in Karachi, Mr Kanji Hanagata. According to a statement by the ...

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 ...

The 2022 kanji of the year, selected in a popular vote, was 戦 (ikusa or tatakau, meaning “conflict” or “battle”).A look at the top ten finishers in a year marked by strife on the ...

The Japanese kanji "kizuna", meaning bonds or connections between people, comes top of a public poll for the character that best sums up 2011.

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 ...

Put all those criteria together, and there’s definitely a certain logic to people choosing Japanese kanji characters for their tattoos, even if they themselves don’t speak the language. However, there ...