Japan adopted Chinese characters as it had no writing system then, although it later developed the native scripts hiragana and katakana based on them. The simplification over time of the kanji 馬 ...

Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...

Kanji is a logographic alphabet part of the Japanese writing system. Windows 7 enables non-Japanese computers to virtualize Japanese language support; you can write in kanji on your keyboard even ...

Writing also forces students to focus on the shape of a character, emphasizing the difference between similar kanji that are easily confused, such as 千 (1,000) and 干 (dried) or 微 (minute ...

I'm learning ASP now and am trying to write a kanji flash card site (KanjiFlash) for practice. I managed to get a basic implementation up and running but it's very slow. Currently, the site is ...

The Cultural Agency said in a report this week that 66.5% of Japanese surveyed believe their ability to write kanji characters has deteriorated due to the proliferation of cell phones and computers.