The English-language study market in Japan is huge, and alongside the more serious stuff there are also some more oddball publications. From educational publisher Gakken, however, comes an ...

The year-end selection of words that best represent the past 12 months is a global phenomenon today. As 2016 drew to a close, we saw the Oxford University Press select “post-truth” as its word of the ...

An updated version of the nation's most authoritative Japanese-language dictionary has added 10,000 new words, including ”hanii torappu” (honey trap), ”biggu mausu” (big mouth) and ”karēshū” (an old ...

Dictionary publisher Sanseidō picked chikyū futtōka, the Japanese translation of “global boiling,” as its word of the year for 2023. Its awards for the last few years all emerged and spread on social ...

Following the release of its first edition in 1955, publisher Iwanami Shoten’s Kojien has become one of the most respected and widely used dictionaries in Japan. Since 1998, the tome has been on a ...

An online “talking dictionary” first launched in 2009 is attempting to preserve and pass on the Ainu language spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of Japan's northeastern island of Hokkaido and ...