Learn Hiragana and Katakana: Just like English has A to Z, the Japanese language also has its own alphabet. Fun fact is that Japanese doesn’t use a single language. It uses three writing systems, ...

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Taku Satoh Design Officecreated this 3D paper version of the Japanese Hiragana alphabet in response to the prevalence of superflat media, where we read and watch from 2D screens. Unveiled at Gallery ...

Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...

One of the biggest surprises thus far from the not-yet-released-but-we-have-it-already-because-a-store-sold-it-to-us-early Japanese version of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is a special alphabet ...

Kanji is a logographic alphabet part of the Japanese writing system. Windows 7 enables non-Japanese computers to virtualize Japanese language support; you can write in kanji on your keyboard even if ...

We’re back and ready to take on the third, and most puzzling, type of Japanese text: katakana. Recently, we started taking a look at the question of why the Japanese language needs three sets of ...