A new Japan immigration policy plans stricter residency, citizenship and monitoring rules for foreigners—but the changes ...

The Diet on May 26 passed legislation designed to improve the quality of Japanese language education for foreign students in Japan as well as overseas. The law is aimed at providing oversight on ...

A 23-year-old Nepalese man here is gaining Japanese language skills through interactions with locals while helping revitalize ...

With the number of foreign residents in Japan soaring, hundreds of Japanese-language schools have sprung up to meet rising demand. But these hubs of internationalization face daunting financial ...

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 ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a fun hobby ...

While some say Japanese knowledge is a fair demand, others worry it will introduce ‘roadblocks’ at a time when the country ...

Japanese has imported and adapted words from many different sources over the centuries, including the tongues of its continental neighbors as well as languages from far-flung Europe. Every language ...

The night marking the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day, the streets of Jongno, Seoul, buzzed with excitement. Among the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. One of the odd aspects of the Switch 2 announcement was the quiet ...