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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Ever hit a brick wall when trying to study more kanji, with everything just feeling a bit... too unrelated (or way too much of the same)? Well, there's a new website/app on the block that's here to ...

Learning kanji doesn’t have to take a decade — with the right blend of science‑backed memory techniques, daily habits, and smart tools, you can speed up progress dramatically. From radicals and ...

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 ...

Yoshimi Kojima, director of the Center for Intercultural Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, who led the development of the kanji learning app "TUFS Multiling" is seen at the university in ...

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 ...