Foreign words undergo transformation in various ways when they enter another language. The following are some of the technical terms that linguists use to describe such changes. All languages have ...

As a native Japanese speaker, I get annoyed when I come across English articles that tout Japanese buzzwords like ikigai. They’re not commonly used in our day-to-day conversations. Ikigai is more like ...

Reporting from Tokyo — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will deliver a speech Saturday on the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to U.S. forces in World War II. The text will be closely ...

Words like futon, tycoon and karaoke are so ingrained in the English language that it's easy to forget they are actually of Japanese origin. In fact, Japan has long been a rich source of loan words ...

What Japanese say and what they mean can be two entirely different things, and in this context the Japanese word honne refers to real, inner feelings, and the word tatemae refers to the feelings one ...