Tensions between Japan and China have escalated sharply in recent weeks, with Taiwan at the center of the growing diplomatic spat. The standoff started when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ...

Tensions between China and Japan have intensified after Beijing rejected Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's latest ...

From artist Miya Ando, Water of the Sky, A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words.

From artist Miya Ando, Water of the Sky, A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese wor ...

If you've heard "goblin mode" or "swiftie" lately, it's thanks to them: Young girls are more innovative with language than any other group, linguists say. Young women check their phones on a fire ...

TOKYO – JR Central said on Nov 21 that it will conduct trials of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated language services at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo for foreign tourists travelling on its Tokaido ...

Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines ... but also mosques. The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that ...

Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...

Evolution of language is the gradual change in human language over time. It involves the origin and divergence of languages and language families, and can be considered analogous to biological ...

We list the best language learning apps, to make it simple and easy to discover a new language or improve upon your existing skills with online resources. Are you finally ready to learn a new language ...

Telecom giant SoftBank Corp. is working with the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo to fine-tune an app called SureTalk that converts sign language gestures into text. When a person uses ...