With a recent deluge of international travelers to Japan and plenty more aspirants, it may be no surprise that the Oxford ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eleven English words of Japanese origin were added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its revision last December. The ...

THERE has been a remarkable surge of global interest in Japan recently, a trend most visibly evidenced by the dramatic influx ...

Words like futon, tycoon and karaoke are so ingrained in the English language that it's easy to forget they are actually of Japanese origin. In fact, Japan has long been a rich source of loan words ...

Ever feel like you don’t have enough penciled in on your calendar? On December 3, dictionary publisher Shōgakukan announced that its word of the year is kūhaku kyōfushō, or “a morbid fear of blank ...