Most people will tell you that the most difficult thing about learning Japanese is dealing with kanji, the written characters originally imported from China. Not only are there more than 2,100 general ...

The kanji for gold (金 kin) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this year, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation said Thursday.

KYOTO -- The kanji character "an," meaning "safety," was chosen as the single best kanji to sum up the year 2015, the organizer of the kanji aptitude test announced on Dec. 15. The kanji "an" won ...

In a year of political action at home and uncertainty on the international front, the Japanese public decided that 北 (kita or hoku), meaning “north,” was the kanji best expressing what 2017 meant to ...