<B>Japanese tattoos don't always mean what their wearers think they do</B><BR><BR><UL TYPE=SQUARE><I>Stop by any tattoo shop, and there's a good chance you'll see ...

"I've noticed how people seem to take delight when I hand them my business cards with kanji on one side and the alphabet on the reverse," chuckles Takuro Nagami, a photographer who often goes on ...

Japan chose the kanji character for war as the symbol for 2022 after a year marked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe. In the annual event held to choose ...

Most people will tell you that the most difficult thing about learning Japanese is dealing with kanji, the written characters originally imported from China. Not only are there more than 2,100 general ...

Discover how Chinese and Japanese writing systems work without alphabets, using symbols and syllabaries that represent ...

Japan has chosen the symbol meaning "disaster" to define the year 2018. Television stations broadcast the announcement live as the master of an ancient temple in Kyoto wrote the winning term on a ...