Joe Lauer, a long-term American resident of Hiroshima, sent the following feedback on a workshop I conducted to promote the Kanji Proficiency Examination (Kanken), a standardized test that measures ...

TOKYO >> The writing may be on the wall for handwritten Japanese. In a 2021 survey by the Cultural Affairs Agency, 90% of respondents said the proliferation of digital devices, such as computers and ...

Break up the monotony of traditional language learning and bring some entertainment value to your Japanese kanji studies on the Nintendo Switch with media5’s latest release in “edu-tainment”: Greco’s ...

The Cultural Agency said in a report this week that 66.5% of Japanese surveyed believe their ability to write kanji characters has deteriorated due to the proliferation of cell phones and computers.

I recently encountered a new term that's a real mouthful: IT依存性漢字健忘症 (IT izonsei kanji kenbōshō, kanji amnesia due to dependence on information technology). The word acknowledges that the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Kanji Swipe: Sliding Puzzle Kanji Swipe: Sliding Puzzle is a simple sliding puzzle and the best way to learn how to write Kanji, one of the 3 writing ...

During their six years in elementary school, Japanese children learn over 1,000 kanji. In this time, they greatly increase their reading sophistication, moving from picture books to short novels and ...

I'm learning ASP now and am trying to write a kanji flash card site (KanjiFlash) for practice. I managed to get a basic implementation up and running but it's very slow. <BR><BR>Currently, the site is ...