We’re back and ready to take on the third, and most puzzling, type of Japanese text: katakana. Recently, we started taking a look at the question of why the Japanese language needs three sets of ...

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Japanese is known for its combination of three scripts: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. However, a fourth script is also used on occasion, and has even been suggested at times as a replacement for the ...

Teaching in Japan was certainly different to what I was used to. Each morning, when I arrived at the school I would be working in that day (I worked across six junior schools during my five-year stay ...

Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...