Note: Kobo Daishi is the posthumous name of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835).

Canola blossoms are at their best in rice paddies in the city of Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture. The scene looks like a ...

Making things with your hands is not only satisfying but also has benefits for psychological well-being. Read more at ...

At the Alliance Literature Festival in Bengaluru, the winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize (2020-2021) ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter.You can’t catch a bus in Vancouver without tripping over a struggling indie musician trying to ...

You can search using romaji and Japanese characters, but you can also look up kanji by SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns), multi-radical, and Chinese radicals. Its clear interface allows for ...

This year’s Washin Kai’s spring lecture will be by Professor Davinder Bhowmik from the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington (UW). On April 8, Bhowmik will be ...

It has been a common misconception for many years that the Chinese language (Mandarin) is the most difficult language to learn. Although I admit that it is by no means easy to learn, I believe that ...

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 ...