Proposed legislation to impose restrictions on how names written in kanji characters can and should be read concerns all Japanese whose names are registered with the authorities. This is an issue that ...

TOKYO -- Names written in Chinese characters commonly read as "Haruto" or "Hinato" and a single-kanji name usually pronounced as "Tsumugi" were the most popular names given to boys and girls ...

A lot of thought goes into picking baby names in Japan. Not only do parents have to pick how the name will sound, but also how it’ll be written, since the Japanese language’s system of kanji ...

Amidst all of the controversy flaring up in Japan over “kirakira names,” the question has been raised concerning a rather peculiar name trait shared by many old Japanese women. A large number of aging ...

A mother holds her son, born on the first day of the Reiwa era, at Keiai Hospital in the Saitama Prefecture city of Fujimi, on May 1, 2019. (Mainichi/Kimi Takeuchi) TOKYO -- Rin and Ren topped the ...

The Government programme, which will begin from September and follows a development phase and pilot scheme, aims to reduce the number of avoidable brain injuries during childbirth (Dominic Lipinski/PA ...

This year Japan saw the Heisei era end and a new one begin: Reiwa, the name for the reign of Emperor Naruhito. The character 令 (pronounced rei or ryō) from this term has been chosen as the Kanji of ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for ...

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 if ...