Learn Hiragana and Katakana: Just like English has A to Z, the Japanese language also has its own alphabet. Fun fact is that Japanese doesn’t use a single language. It uses three writing systems, ...

Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...

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10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

Kanji is a logographic alphabet part of the Japanese writing system. Windows 7 enables non-Japanese computers to virtualize Japanese language support; you can write in kanji on your keyboard even if ...

We’re back and ready to take on the third, and most puzzling, type of Japanese text: katakana. Recently, we started taking a look at the question of why the Japanese language needs three sets of ...