Archaeologists working on a Japanese island discovered an ancient shard of earthenware pottery featuring Kanji, the logographic characters that comprise the Japanese system of writing. It's one of the ...

The curriculum includes 46 alphabets, three ways of writing and more than 200 Chinese characters, but Shorecrest’s new Japanese teacher, Sachiko Smith, insists that taking her Japanese class involves ...

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Ancient writing characters that date to the first century AD are being taught in a decidedly 21st-century technological programs developed by two DePauw students. Kanji characters were developed in ...

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Jessica is a writer for Game Rant with a background in language-focused content. She is fluent in Japanese and got her start writing articles teaching about the culture and language. She graduated ...

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