Heidi Borst is a freelance journalist, healthcare content writer and certified nutrition coach with a love of all things health and wellness. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The ...

Let’s face it—Japanese can feel like a language that belongs in a different world. Three scripts (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji), thousands of characters, unfamiliar grammar rules, and an entire culture ...

Bright-eyed and eager to learn, my passion for anime and manga fueled an unquenchable desire to gain mastery of the Japanese language. I had fallen in love with the intricate, thought-provoking plot ...

A government survey on the Japanese language revealed how new onomatopoeic words like mofu mofu (fluffy) are making their way into the lexicon and how people are using them. Japan’s Agency for ...