When emails first hit Japan in the mid-1990s, these were counted in 通 (tsū), the common classifier for letters. However ...

The Japanese word for 'thing' has some quite surprising qualities.

Words can be like people. Some will always look on the bright side, while others take a more pessimistic view of things.

The Japanese language offers a number of words and expressions that help convey bad news in a less painful way.

Japanese has this amazingly amazing capacity to form words through the simple process of repetition, or what linguists call reduplication.

It’s a game that can be played anytime, anywhere. All you need is two players, some rudimentary kana knowledge — and a lot of words.

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.

While English prefers to describe things in terms of an actor who performs some action on an object, in Japanese such things often seem to happen out of themselves.

It's not news that Japan is running out of children. Though the country's total fertility rate has recently shown some slight signs of recovery, this is unlikely to halt the overall trend of 少子化 (shōshika), which is the common term used to describe the ...

The Japanese past tense looks pretty easy to handle, but it can turn up in sentences about the here and now, as well as in adjectives and imperatives.