Joe Lauer, a long-term American resident of Hiroshima, sent the following feedback on a workshop I conducted to promote the Kanji Proficiency Examination (Kanken), a standardized test that measures ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Have you ever been interested in learning the Japanese language? The art of the Kanji writing ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for ...

Most discussion of the acquisition of Sino-Japanese characters (kanji) conceptualizes it as a three-sided cognitive task of linking visual forms to units of sound and units of meaning. However, native ...

The Cultural Agency said in a report this week that 66.5% of Japanese surveyed believe their ability to write kanji characters has deteriorated due to the proliferation of cell phones and computers.

I'm learning ASP now and am trying to write a kanji flash card site (KanjiFlash) for practice. I managed to get a basic implementation up and running but it's very slow. <BR><BR>Currently, the site is ...