In short, 39 means “thank you.” But just how did the number 39 came to be associated with the term “thank you”? Japan’s Kanji ...

Japan has introduced new rules on the names parents can give their children with restrictions on the pronunciation of kanji characters—Chinese‐derived characters written in Japanese. Since the 1980s, ...

Pierre Dandumont has saved a long-lost bit of Macintosh history: If you look for information about the Macintosh Plus and its ...

Topps Announces Shohei Ohtani 1/1 Kanji Bat Card to be Placed in Sterling Product on June 4th as other Cultural Cards are ...

Parents need to know that The Emoji Movie is a colorful and kid-friendly -- if not particularly original -- adventure that imagines a world inside our smartphones in which each emoji is supposed to ...

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But when Naor looked up, the faces he saw were unlike any he had seen before. They were Japanese American soldiers, part of a storied military unit that faced down prejudice and suspicion to fight ...

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Finding enough rooms at the inn is proving no mean feat for Japanese government officials set to attend the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis next month. The Asian country’s foreign affairs ...

In the past few years, Japanese anime (a shortened transliteration of the English noun “animation”) has shifted from niche fandom to one of Japan’s most potent vectors of soft power.

They may be small and seemingly harmless, but emojis can carry more weight than you might guess. Sometimes they serve as nothing less than social hand grenades. That’s the message from Unnur ...

If you hold a modern device that supports the latest emojis (based on Unicode 16.0 ... webpages properly in languages like Chinese or Japanese. You would typically see fallback characters ...