A person who wants to learn Japanese is soon faced with a seemingly irreducible task: that of learning 2,136 kanji (the jōyō kanji list, which contains the characters used in publishing media). For a ...

Break up the monotony of traditional language learning and bring some entertainment value to your Japanese kanji studies on the Nintendo Switch with media5’s latest release in “edu-tainment”: Greco’s ...

There’s something that I love about D3’s Simple series other than the games being really cheap. A lot of times they go on the road less traveled make risky titles like the Origin of caveman where you ...

Learning kanji doesn’t have to be overwhelming — with the right mix of mnemonics, spaced repetition, and context-based study, you can make steady, lasting progress. Modern tools like WaniKani, Anki, ...

Kanji can appear bewilderingly complex to the learner, but many are made up of a combination of simpler parts. Creating stories based on the meaning of those parts is a useful mnemonic technique.

For a lot of people, kanji is about on par with natto. A huge sticky mess, difficult to consume, and not nearly as tasty as it is troublesome. Anyway, me personally, I never wanted to spend years ...

Yoshimi Kojima has long wanted to create a fun way of teaching kanji to children of overseas origins. The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies associate professor has finally hit upon a solution.

Sekai Project have released Kanji No Owari!, an Android RPG built to help English speakers memorize Kanji. According to the game’s entry on the Android store, Kanji No Owari! “helps the players in ...

Last fall, I reported the results of my search for kanji-learning gold in cyberspace. Today, in this second report, I am happy to inform you that the panning has never been better. My bookshelf sags ...

For a lot of people, kanji is about on par with natto. A huge sticky mess, difficult to consume, and not nearly as tasty as it is troublesome. Anyway, me personally, I never wanted to spend years ...