Thrills of Recognition. Nippon or “Japan” written in hiragana, katakana, and kanji, respectively.. The Japanese language has three main scripts, and the most basic and essential of these is ...

The Japanese calendar, while seemingly modern, holds deep historical roots, particularly in the naming of its days of the week. Unlike the simple numerical or sequential English system, the ...

There are not one but three writing systems that work together in the Japanese alphabet system: namely Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji. Here’s an in-depth guide.

は [ha] じ [ji] め [me] ま [ma] し [shi] て [te]. Katakana, like hiragana, is a way of writing syllables, but is used, on the whole, for terms which have been incorporated into Japanese from ...

But not all romaji is the same. Depending on where you look, you might see “shi” spelled as “shi,” “si” or even something ...

1) お (o). This one isn’t used because of its similarity to the hiragana あ (a). During a high-speed chase, the last thing police want to do is have to squint and try to deduce if they’re tailing an お ...