In this short video I have fun with Japanese homophones that all sound almost the same but use different kanji and meanings.
Exploring Japanese game vocabulary reveals cultural layers in creature names, highlights top Anki decks for 2026, and explains why sentence-based learning outperforms isolated word lists. Together, ...
As a native Japanese speaker, I get annoyed when I come across English articles that tout Japanese buzzwords like ikigai. They’re not commonly used in our day-to-day conversations. Ikigai is more like ...
Yoshikai Akira promotes yasashii Nihongo (simple Japanese) as head of the Yasashii Nihongo Promotion Network. In this article ...
The grave of author Nagai Kafu. Words, like the authors who use them, can eventually pass away and become part of the realm of the dead. (Public domain) By Damian Flanagan My eldest daughter has a ...