While working on the island of Guam in the early 1970s, I had regular business dealings with the expat Japanese business community — basically a good-natured crowd who were used to hearing locals mangle their language on a daily basis. One day, while visiting the manager of a car rental ...
Introducing the proper uses of two similar expressions — ぎりぎりand すれすれ .
Comedian Pikotaro's music video "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen" has been recognized as the shortest song ever to make the U.S. Billboard Top ...
The billionaire businessman represents uncharted waters, a situation that could undermine the Japan-U.S. alliance and upend regional security in Asia.
A look at how the U.S. president-elect's words have been relayed in Japanese may help explain the source of uncertainty and concern here about his election.
Introducing some expressions using 分 (ぶん), which means "share," "part" or "portion."
U.S. music legend Bob Dylan is the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize in literature in the award's 115-year history.
All options remain on the table after a working group set up to review the cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics met for the first time.
Let's face it, where else are we going to watch a lot of large, near-naked men wrestle each other in a tiny dirt arena?
Introducing some uses of the adjective あやしい, which means "dubious" or "strange."
Pepper, SoftBank Corp.'s humanoid robot, has started work at a bank and a life insurer in Taiwan.
To avoid turmoil near JR Shibuya Station over Halloween, the police planned to dedicate two nearby streets to pedestrians only.
It seems that in Japanese dubbing there is always something found rather than lost in translation — something that wasn't in the English original and is not part of regular Japanese either.
Introduce some uses of きり, which is used to set limits on things.
The University of Tokyo ranked 39th in this year's Times Higher Education list, making it the fourth best institution of higher learning in Asia.
