Born Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz harmonica player.

The Cultural Affairs Agency, which is considering establishing a unified writing style of romaji — romanized Japanese — has ...

The Miyawaki Forest Technique, invented by Japanese botanist and plant ecology expert Professor Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, is the inspiration for micro-forests worldwide. These diverse ...

One of them, for any user of Japanese out there, is the small version of the kana letter tsu — っin hiragana,ッin katakana — and the many things we do with it on a regular basis.

The researchers tested the cyborg computer using audio clips from eight different male speakers making the sounds of Japanese vowels. They then asked the computer to identify the speakers.

Here we assessed the MMN elicited by two types of phonological contrasts, namely vowel quality and vowel length, assuming that both will elicit a comparably strong MMN as both are phonemic in the ...