If you're dining at a Japanese restaurant, you might want to know some key words and phrases. Immersing yourself in the ...

A lot of people who move to Japan to teach English also end up becoming students of the Japanese language as part of the process. That’s because while it’s possible to teach at Japan’s English ...

Complex concepts captured by a single word or short phrase carry much power. They embed themselves into the collective consciousness of the people, leading to a shared reality of what it means to live ...

Emoji, karaoke, futon, ramen: Words we wouldn't have if it weren't for the Japanese language. The complex language that incorporates elements of Chinese, English, German and Portuguese is on full ...

The ‘untranslatable’ Japanese phrase ‘Koi No Yokan’ is ‘the premonition of love’. BBC Culture asked Japanese speakers what it meant to them. “We have the word for love at first sight – Hitomebore,” ...

“Shou ga nai” is a Japanese phrase that can be depressingly fatalistic on one hand. But could it — and the many phrases like it — be weirdly freeing on the other? Sometimes in life, bad stuff happens ...