Wild monkeys in this western Japan city gathered on Dec. 25 to form the kanji character for "snake," the Chinese zodiac sign ...

Researchers insist the fragment found in the Tawayama archaeological site in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, bears faint kanji characters scribbled in India ink. But skeptics said the presence of ...

The Ministry of Justice has drafted guidelines for a new family register name reading system starting in May 2025, telling ...

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 ...

In the annual vote, the public nominated this kanji character after experiencing a number of natural disasters. Japan has suffered flooding, typhoons, earthquakes and heatwaves in 2018 ...

The kanji for gold (金 kin) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this ...

People in Japan have chosen the Chinese character meaning "gold" or "money" as the kanji that best symbolizes this year. An ...

TOKYO – Japan chose the kanji character for war on Monday as the symbol for 2022 after a year marked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe.

SUMOTO, Hyogo -- Wild monkeys in this western Japan city gathered on Dec. 25 to form the kanji character for "snake," the Chinese zodiac sign for 2025. Japanese macaques form the kanji character ...