Learning kanji is often considered to be the most difficult part of studying Japanese. But it doesn't have to be. Read the Kanji (readthekanji.com) is a fun, web-based quiz application designed to ...

I recently encountered a new term that's a real mouthful: IT依存性漢字健忘症 (IT izonsei kanji kenbōshō, kanji amnesia due to dependence on information technology). The word acknowledges that the ...

So many Japanese are forgetting how to write kanji characters that cultural experts believe the country may eventually scrap the use of Chinese pictograms in favour of the 46 simplified hiragana ...

TOKYO >> The writing may be on the wall for handwritten Japanese. In a 2021 survey by the Cultural Affairs Agency, 90% of respondents said the proliferation of digital devices, such as computers and ...

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. <BR><BR>Currently, the site is ...

Of those to replied to a survey by the Cultural Affairs Agency, 66.5 per cent said they feared they were forgetting all the required strokes in some of the characters, up more than 25 percentage ...