AOJ Language School has launched enrollment for Spring Semester 2026. Applications are accepted via the application ...

Children are pictured at Meisei Gakuen, a school for the deaf in Tokyo, in October 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Tokyo school for the deaf stands out not just because it has sent five graduates to ...

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Tokyo has long been a breeding ground for artists who move ahead of the curve not by chasing trends, but by quietly reshaping them. Kamiya, a core member of the genre-fluid collective XAMIYA, is part ...

Ginza at Night, by Franklin McMahon. (Photo by Franklin McMahon / Corbis via Getty Images) The history of literary translation, as the critic Lawrence Venuti once memorably put it, is one of ...

That means “Nice to meet you, my name is Amanda” in Japanese. There are a lot of phrases to help you survive in the county during the Tokyo Olympics - here are my top ten. Let’s start with the basics ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government is strengthening its support for improving accessibility to the arts for people with ...