Want to understand your favourite anime better? Check out these 20 common and simple Japanese phrases used in anime that ...

Konnichiwa! There’s your first Japanese word, which means “hello”! Getting around Japan without being able to speak a word of Japanese may pose as a challenge, especially if it is your first time ...

Master basic grammar! Also－words that sound like what they describe. "Easy Japanese" is a program of Japanese language lessons produced by Japan's public broadcaster, NHK WORLD-JAPAN. You can ...

Duolingo is one of the best free language apps for learning Japanese as well as a number of other languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Korean and even fictional languages like Klingon ...

Members of the "Yasashii Nihongo Gekidan" (Easy Japanese troupe) enact a sketch, titled "What should I do: the town meeting edition" in Japanese, in the city of Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, on Jan ...

Actually, disaster terms are not included in about 2,000 “easy Japanese” words. For foreign residents to understand such disaster-related words, it is necessary to change Japanese language ...

Short, easy to understand phrases in Japanese were ringing out one day in March at the Tamarokuto Science Center's planetarium in the suburban Tokyo city of Nishitokyo.

"Simple Japanese" pins made for foreign tourists, left, and local residents, right. (Photo courtesy of the Yasashii Nihongo Tourism Kenkyukai) "Simple Japanese," devised to convey information to ...