The Democratic Party for the People modified language in its Upper House election manifesto that was criticized as xenophobic by voices both inside and outside the party.

Localizing is a big deal among anime fans. Debates over whether certain subtitles are too literal, too loose, or too limited ...

In his ongoing war on “woke,” President Donald Trump has instructed the National Park Service to scrub any language he would deem negative, unpatriotic or smacking of “improper partisan ideology” from ...

Commentary: The Google Gemini features on my Samsung Galaxy let me be more spontaneous in my shopping adventures.

In earlier talks, Japan offered to increase imports of US agricultural goods and review its “non-tariff trade barriers” to American car sales to respond to the concerns of the Trump administration. In ...

A longer-term study also found that Japanese walking protects against the reductions in strength and fitness that happen with ageing. These improvements in health would also suggest that Japanese ...

Listen to Japanese music and read lyrics side-by-side. Why it works: You absorb grammar patterns, vocabulary, and cultural nuance naturally over time—just like kids learning their first language.

Japanese was piloted as a second foreign language starting in 2003-04, and as a first foreign language in some schools in 2016-17. In 2021 the Ministry of Education and Training issued the national ...

Dibrugarh: In a move aimed at enhancing employment opportunities for Assamese youth, Dibrugarh University announced plans to introduce a Japanese language course starting from the next academic year.

To better understand how AI voice tools might transform the future of language learning, I spent a month practicing Japanese with the ChatGPT smartphone app before traveling to Tokyo for the first ...

TOKYO -- Japan has accredited just 22 Japanese-language schools that serve immigrants, the government said Wednesday, meaning 70% of the first wave of ...