Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. has announced the results of its annual popular baby names survey, revealing ranking of names ...

Bears are becoming a growing problem in some of Japan’s urban areas as they are forced to venture further in search of food ...

Maybe you're brushing up on the Japanese language, are an aficionado of Japanese culture, or have Japanese heritage yourself.

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...

Who invented kanji? The truth remains a mystery. Yet a legend from a neighboring land tells of an ancient sage named Cangjie ...

The kanji for “bear” (熊, kuma) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this year, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation said ...

take aim at something try to deal with an issue; criticise something. She took aim at her rival for the job promotion by ...

Traveling abroad without any bearings can feel a bit like being dropped into a video game with absolutely no tutorial. And if ...

Year of the Horse in Japan. It’s one demographers have been awaiting for decades — the return of the Fire Horse.

Kyoto, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)--"Kuma," meaning bear, was picked Friday as the kanji character of the year in Japan, amid a series of wild bear attacks across the country. It was the first time ...

Kyoto hit 11 million visitors in 2024, the Japan National Tourism Organisation reports, a record that could quite possibly be ...