Top tourist sites in Japan
Miyajima island in Hiroshima is one of the top five places for tourists to visit in Japan. Another top site is the Atomic Bomb museum in Hiroshima. This means that Hiroshima has a couple of world renowned places that are a must-see for sightseeing trips to Japan.
The other places that are on the list are the city of Kyoto which used to be the imperial capital of Japan ...
High school sports in Japan
In Japanese high schools and junior high schools, there are a wealth of sporting activities and after-school clubs.
These include baseball, basketball, volleyball, softball and soccer. And you can also find clubs for traditional sports such as sumo (traditional wrestling), judo (martial arts), and kendo (traditional swordsmanship) as well.
Baseball, soccer, and rugby...
Using computers in Japan
When you come to Japan and start to live in the country, or when you start to learn Japanese, one of the first hurdles you face is using the computer in Japanese. This has now become quite easy and only requires setting the IME into the Japanese language.
There are many online guides to teach how to write and how to use the keyboard too.
But in this blog by a Japanese l...
Trends in Japan
Japan is a famously faddish nation. There are trends that pop up, only to disappear soon after they become popular. And there are fashion and pop culture fads that become global phenomena in their own right.
There are also many Japanese language trends that can be limited to certain age groups or even gender.
In this blog for Japanese learners, Ms. Akari Ueno, a Japanese teacher...
What is Japanese Kanji?
The word for Kanji in Japanese comes from two characters, Kan = the ancient name for China, and Ji = which means script of style of writing.
The style of writing was brought to Japan in the 5th Century. Much later after the second World War,it was simplified into the Japanese style that is used today.
Most Kanji characters have two ways to read them, and these are called...
