Whether you’re paying attention or not, you’re surrounded by symbols. Part of high-level Japanese is recognizing when these symbols with deeper meanings or certain implications appear in daily life, ...

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 ...

Some of the new map symbols proposed by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Geospatial Information Authority of Japan The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan is proposing to revamp ...

Another commonly used set of symbols can be seen on the nation’s collection of high-tech toilets, and given that makers have been using different pictograms for the various functions on their units, ...

Educational books starring Professor Poo, who helps Japanese kids learn kanji characters, have become bestsellers. Source: Unko Kanji Drill A series of educational books, featuring a character called ...

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Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...