Tokyo 2020 has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to encourage the use of French during next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. The ...

Children are pictured at Meisei Gakuen, a school for the deaf in Tokyo, in October 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Tokyo school for the deaf stands out not just because it has sent five graduates to ...

Tokyo 2020 has reportedly decided the Parade of Nations at the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be determined using Japanese language names and the country’s phonetic order. Kyodo News reported that ...

Teachers of Japanese in Britain are shaking up the way they teach the language in order to challenge Western stereotypes and ...

An introduction to modern Japanese stressing oral-aural facility but including an introduction to written Japanese. Two classes, three hours of drill and conversation. No credit is given for JPN 101 ...

Foreign words undergo transformation in various ways when they enter another language. The following are some of the technical terms that linguists use to describe such changes. All languages have ...