As a presenter of NHK’s German language programs on television and radio, Marei Mentlein is a familiar figure to students of German in Japan. She also writes a regular column introducing European ...

The 2015 Nationwide Survey on Changes in the Japanese Language (held from March 6th to March 15th, 2015, with 1,192 respondents) revealed the following.

TOKYO -- Education Minister Masahiko Shibayama said in a news conference on May 21 that he will soon ask prefectural governments and other local bodies to write Japanese names with the family name ...

"There's this idea (among Japanese bands) that you have to make something different from the Western music you listen to," says Yuto Uchino, singer for indie rock band The fin. "I was really trying ...