Kanji

Language | BILINGUAL Feb 26, 2018

To have and to hold, to slap and to tickle: For tactile versatility, you have to hand it to this kanji

by Mark Schreiber

One way to acquire more kanji is to organize them into a relational database. To show how this works, let's look at some of the many characters using the hand radical.

Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO Dec 18, 2017

Kanji meaning north picked to symbolize 2017

Where was the "Kanji of the Year" announced?

National Dec 12, 2017

Kita, meaning north, named 2017 kanji of the year amid growing North Korea threat

The kanji kita (北, north) has been selected as the character best capturing the national mood this year in Japan amid the heightened nuclear and missile threat posed by North Korea, a Kyoto-based kanji promotion organization said Tuesday. Chief Buddhist priest Seihan Mori of Kiyomizu Temple ...

Language | BILINGUAL May 15, 2017

Reciting the rescript to flaunt your Japanese

by Mark Schreiber

If you'd like to learn the Imperial Rescript on Education as a Japanese memory test, it's less than a single A4 page in length.

National / Politics Jan 26, 2017

Abe's kanji gaffe makes Twitter's trend tally

by Tomohiro Osaki

Reading kanji characters can be treacherous, and it seems even Prime Minister Shinzo Abe isn't immune to the pitfalls. Abe has become the butt of online ridicule after misreading a kanji while delivering a speech from a script at an Upper House plenary session earlier ...

National Dec 12, 2016

Kanji meaning gold or money picked as best symbolizing 2016

The kanji for kin, meaning gold or money, has been picked as the character best symbolizing this year's social mood in Japan, a Kyoto-based kanji promotion organization said Monday. The selection came after Japan won 12 gold medals at the Rio Olympics and former Tokyo ...

National Feb 9, 2016

Kanji Museum to open in Kyoto in June

The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, the group that annually announces the single character best symbolizing the year, will open a facility in June where visitors can learn about kanji in a fun atmosphere. The Kanji Museum, located in the city of Kyoto, will feature ...

National | FUKUSHIMA FILE Jan 17, 2016

Fukushima town hopes to translate kanji and sake into tourism cash

Residents of Kitakata, a northwestern Fukushima Prefecture city known for promoting antiquated Japanese kanji, are stepping up efforts to attract more tourists by linking the pictographs to sake breweries in the area. Kitakata wo Kanji no Machi ni suru Kai, a citizens' group promoting pictographs ...