Both "mono" and "koto" mean "thing" in Japanese, but they're used in different ways. And the thing is, nuance matters.

If you ever want to take a break from grammar and reading when studying Japanese, dive into the world of "giongo" and "gitaigo."

Any great chef can whip up an omelet. But each has their own style — the herb-rich French omelet, the albumin-heavy American omelet, the sweet Japanese tamagoyaki, the list goes on — but either way, you can expect to be served up something tasty. That ...

Floating around the murky regions of digitized Unicode values are anywhere between 60 and 100 yūrei-moji — literally, "ghost characters" — haunting the Japanese kanji lexicon.