People in Japan spent the longest time on Duolingo’s free language-learning app among users from around the world, the company announced on Dec. 7. Duolingo Inc., based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ...

Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai Japanese. Even better, their reply in their native tongue comes through ...

TOKYO -- Japan looks to ease language requirements for foreign bus and taxi drivers entering the country via its specified skilled worker program, lowering what some observers argue has been a barrier ...

TOKYO -- Japan outlined plans on Friday to launch a new official Japanese language test for foreigners, part of an overall road map the government is crafting to make it easier for people from ...

Rakuten, the online shopping mall operator, earlier this month held a welcoming ceremony for 480 senior university students it expects to hire next spring. Notable about the occasion was that ...

Kaiko to sensō to Nihongo: Ōbei no Nihon rikai wa kō shite hajimatta (Silkworms, War, and the Japanese Language: How the West Came to Understand Japan), written by the Japanese-language education ...

Donald Keene is seen working in his office at Columbia University in New York, in this undated photo. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) TOKYO -- Between 1983 and 1986, Donald Keene ...

Tom Garry, Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo, is a linguist who has been active as a translator, lexicographer, and English instructor for about 40 years since coming to Japan in 1983. As ...