For many Japanese language enthusiasts, anime is not just an entertaining hobby—it’s also an incredible resource for learning ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching ... and two software projects that I believe are perfect for beginners. And I’ll be active in the comments if you need any personal ...

Focus: The BA (major) in Japanese Studies gives you the linguistic and cultural fluency to provide expertise on Japanese culture and society. A double major or minor brings geographical focus to ...

it would be strange to go a day without reading anything. However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the ...

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

For a long while, there was an industry in Japan called Nihonjin-ron: a multimillion-dollar traffic in theories of the Japanese national character. The Japanese of the 1960's and 70's discovered to ...

Forex trading, short for “foreign exchange trading,” is the act of buying and selling currencies to profit from changes in ...

and call it Japanese whisky. Under the new voluntary regulations, they still can import-bottle-sell, but they would call it a world whisky–nothing wrong with this practice, just more transparency.

According to Japanese media, 90% of those rushed to hospital from choking on their new year's dish are people aged 65 or older. Chew, chew, chew. If that's not possible, the rice cakes need to be ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. With the news that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing Pocket Pair ...