The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

TOKYO -- Names written in Chinese characters commonly read as "Haruto" or "Hinato" and a single-kanji name usually pronounced ...

Proposed legislation to impose restrictions on how names written in kanji characters can and should be read concerns all Japanese whose names are registered with the authorities. This is an issue ...

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KYOTO--The Japanese public has given its verdict for the kanji character that best ... s enthronement on May 1. The characters for the new era name were taken from "Manyoshu" (Collection of ...