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 ...

We all know Jim. He casts a vigilant eye over thousands of us each day as we track down definitions for confusing kanji and decipher new vocabulary. Jim's bearded 34-by-45-pixel countenance sits atop ...

More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included Katsu, donburi and onigiri are among ...

The concise editions of the Oxford English Dictionary are seen on display at a bookstore in London on Jan. 16, 2026. (Mainichi/Hojin Fukunaga) Eleven English words of Japanese origin were added to the ...