The 15th Big Hinamatsuri festival is being held at the municipal Kokokan museum in the city of Ono, Hyogo Prefecture, displaying numerous "hina" dolls･･･ ...

The Kawazu cherry blossoms are now at their best in the town of Kawazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. This is the early-blooming pink cherry blossom variety or･･･ ...

Initially inspired by anime and manga, Wang enrolled in first-year Japanese. In the two years since, though, her path to fluency has been far from straightforward.

The plum blossoms at Hiraoka Park's plum grove in the city of Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, have begun to bloom, heralding the arrival of spring. There are about 200 plum trees in the park, ranging ...

Migratory birds called smews have arrived at Osaka Castle's moat. They are members of the duck family and come to Japan in the winter. Males have pure white bodies and black markings around their eyes ...

Master the Japanese alphabet in days, not months. Kana Snap is an arcade-style SRS tool designed to burn Hiragana and Katakana characters into your memory. Optimized for PC, Mac & Steam Deck, it ...

In December 2024, a solo Japanese software developer known as asa quietly uploaded a new program to the Apple and major Android app stores. Called Tsuita, it’s essentially an ultra-simple online ...

This repository is a fork of nurse/nkf, customized to build Windows binaries using MinGW-w64 on WSL2. The original project does not provide Windows executables, so this fork publishes prebuilt nkf.exe ...

Nkf is a yet another kanji code converter among networks, hosts and terminals. It converts input kanji code to designated kanji code such as ISO-2022-JP, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32.

This is the application procedure ONLY for department-wide students. Instructions to apply for exchange program 2026 Fall Read the instruction carefully before getting ready with your application ...