Government bans unconventional kanji pronunciations to dissuade parents from giving children quirky and individualistic names ...

Japan has introduced new rules restricting how names are spelled and pronounced. The new regulations, announced last week, ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...

Ahn Jung-geun is best known for his dramatic assassination of Japan's first prime minister in 1909 at a railway station.

Some of the later pieces include diacritical marks to make them easier to understand for readers of Japanese, which adopted and later adapted Chinese characters (called kanji in Japan).

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Japanese Calligraphy A Japanese Calligraphy Simulator Game! Not only can you practice writing with a brush following examples, but you can also ...

In Japan, calligraphy is more than just writing—it’s an art form that requires patience, focus, and respect for tradition. This video gives a rare look inside a Japanese calligraphy class ...

Kanji are symbols that represent words in Japanese. They can stand alone, or they can combine with other kanji or kana to create more words and ideas. They are descended from Chinese characters, which ...

It features three Japanese calligraphy artists, Bisei Fukushima Koshu, Michiko Hamasaki and Sogen Hirano, using giant brushes and buckets of ink to create spontaneous larger-than-life compositions ...

Four Japanese players will receive these rare “Kanji” cards, where their names are written in their native language, and the pictures are anime. In Japanese, “Kanji” is the specific ...