As a teenager, Kaoru Akagawa couldn’t read her Japanese grandmother’s letters, but she put it down to her unclear handwriting. Over a decade later, Kaoru realized her grandmother hadn’t been a poor ...

I recently encountered a new term that's a real mouthful: IT依存性漢字健忘症 (IT izonsei kanji kenbōshō, kanji amnesia due to dependence on information technology). The word acknowledges that the ...

To celebrate the release of "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle," a special voting campaign was launched in partnership with the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation and Kitano Tenmangu ...

Ancient writing characters that date to the first century AD are being taught in a decidedly 21st-century technological programs developed by two DePauw students. Kanji characters were developed in ...

Participants of the China-Japan-ROK Young Ambassador Program pose with their Japanese teacher (middle in the front) and the Kanji meaning "love" they have written after attending a calligraphy lesson ...