OSAKA—Perusing through the best-selling Japanese-English dictionary in Japan could give one the impression that the Hanshin ...

The English-language study market in Japan is huge, and alongside the more serious stuff there are also some more oddball publications. From educational publisher Gakken, however, comes an ...

An updated version of the nation's most authoritative Japanese-language dictionary has added 10,000 new words, including "hanii torappu" (honey trap), "biggu mausu" (big mouth) and "karēshū" (an old ...

Dictionary publisher Sanseidō picked chikyū futtōka, the Japanese translation of “global boiling,” as its word of the year for 2023. Its awards for the last few years all emerged and spread on social ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a English to Japanese ...

Following the release of its first edition in 1955, publisher Iwanami Shoten’s Kojien has become one of the most respected and widely used dictionaries in Japan. Since 1998, the tome has been on a ...

An online “talking dictionary” first launched in 2009 is attempting to preserve and pass on the Ainu language spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of Japan's northeastern island of Hokkaido and ...

On Oct. 23, publisher Sanseido did what it would usually do for an upcoming title: It uploaded the basic details of the book, along with sample pages, to its website. It then issued a press release ...