Good news for Japanese learners. Kadokawa Corporation has published three new books about the Japanese language. The three books are part of the のびーる国語 nobiru kokugo (stretch your Japanese language ...

Japan’s latest publishing sensation is a godsend for parents fretting over how to get their children focused on learning kanji. Unko kanji doriru (Poop Kanji Drills) applies a mountain of excrement to ...

Many students of Japanese find learning kanji to be the hardest part of mastering the language. Not just the characters themselves, but also how they are used, seems quite complicated and mysterious. ...

DESIGNING WITH KANJI: Japanese Character Motifs for Surface, Skin & Spirit, by Shogo Oketani and Leza Lowitz. Stone Bridge Press, 2003, 144 pp., $14.95 (paper). If there are a thousand different ways ...