OSAKA—Perusing through the best-selling Japanese-English dictionary in Japan could give one the impression that the Hanshin Tigers have long been the most dominant team in professional baseball. The ...
Dictionary publisher Sanseidō picked chikyū futtōka, the Japanese translation of “global boiling,” as its word of the year for 2023. Its awards for the last few years all emerged and spread on social ...
THERE has been a remarkable surge of global interest in Japan recently, a trend most visibly evidenced by the dramatic influx ...
Following the release of its first edition in 1955, publisher Iwanami Shoten’s Kojien has become one of the most respected and widely used dictionaries in Japan. Since 1998, the tome has been on a ...
Eleven English words of Japanese origin were added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its revision last December. The ...
The English-language study market in Japan is huge, and alongside the more serious stuff there are also some more oddball publications. From educational publisher Gakken, however, comes an ...
Perhaps one of the most iconic Japanese dictionaries, "Kojien" — with its vast collection of some 250,000 words and phrases — still include language that may be perceived as misogynistic. Ahead of the ...
An online “talking dictionary” first launched in 2009 is attempting to preserve and pass on the Ainu language spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of Japan's northeastern island of Hokkaido and ...