Tag: manga

Each year the organization that publishes the Standardized Kanji Test announces the "kanji of the year," the single character that ...

Today's interesting word of Japanese is guuzen (GOO-zen), which means "coincidence." I don't know why, but there seems to be ...

In Japanese politics, as elsewhere, certain words or phrases get permanently attached to politicians. When Shinzo Abe came into office ...

Naturally, the Japanese that's taught in textbooks isn't always the most natural-sounding, and I remember being frustrated by some of ...

Japan is in a state of shock over the death of a pregnant mother after she was turned away from ...

We never think about idioms in our own language, but to non-native speakers, learning the meanings of phrases like "to ...

I love getting a haircut in Japan. The barber shop I use rents space inside a lobby of a large ...

Today marks an interesting 10-year anniversary: the first legal performance of a Japanese song in South Korea, when singer Tomoe ...

One thing that's fun about having kids is all the creative observations they make. Like the time my daughter saw ...

Japan's next Prime Minister has been decided, and as expected, it's to be Taro Aso, who received more than 95% ...

Happy Wedding! To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fist of the North Star, the popular manga and anime set in ...

Although anime has become a part of our world culture, watched by fans from all over the globe, the word ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda surprised everyone by suddenly announcing his resignation on Monday. He's stepping down, he says, to ...

We're deep in it at the San Diego Comicon ('scuze me, Comic-Con International, whatever) in our booth (#129), meeting and ...

In addition to lots of anime-related panels, video rooms and other interesting events, anime conventions are great because you can ...

You've been in Japan too long when you pay over $70 for a Captain Santa T-shirt and realize a few ...

There's nothing more interesting than studying a foreign language, of learning the way its unique grammatical rules work so you ...

Doujinshi are the fan-created comic-books which have become a huge sub-culture here in Japan. The word literally means "same-person-magazine" and ...

The other day I reached for some saltine crackers and found myself smirking at the name on the package: Mornin' ...

One of the things I've liked about my years of learning Japanese is what I've come to call the "joy ...

Manga is the name given to Japanese comic books, although most people over the age of 35 or so will ...

When you study a language like Japanese, you learn many rules that make up the grammar, like the unique particles ...

One of my favorite anime/manga series is Genshiken, an exploration of the deeper aspects of anime, manga and related culture ...

The name of Japan in its own language is nihon or nippon, alternate readings of kanji characters that mean "origin ...