Chatsumi tea picking starts in spring. "The earliest tea picking in Japan" was held on January 6, in the city of Kizugawa, ...

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...

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The Japanese government has unveiled a new passport ... Furigana (hiragana) is added to all kanji in the text.

At the workshop of Chinjuen, a plant shop in Osaka Prefecture, people are busy shipping kadomatsu, decorations placed at entrances and gates for the N･･･ ...

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KYOTO—The character “kin,” meaning "gold" or "money," was selected as the kanji of the year, reflecting the strong showing of Japanese athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris ...

After her mother dies during childbirth, partly — it is indicated — due to the baby’s size, the protagonist is sent to a ...

The translation of "Ekiden" is appropriately "station to station ... Each shoe in the Ekiden Collection features Japanese kanji characters in addition to the flame logo, which serves as inspiration ...