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2026

A Talking Skull, a Communist Donkey and a Very Comfortable Coffin: Inside the Localization of Graveyard Keeper 2original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Why 遊, 旅, 族 and 旗 All Fly the Same Flagoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
A butterfly, an ultimatum and a spy walk into 言葉original ↗
22 Sept 2026
The silk thread hidden in 変, 恋, 蛮 and 湾original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Why 返 Began as a Hand Flipping a Stoneoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
One Open Mouth Behind 吹, 歌 and 飲original ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Fire in 相談 Burns Mildoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
The Good in 良 Is a Hallwayoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Flip Eternity and It Splitsoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
The Sticks Before the Numbersoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
The Lid That Became a Verboriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
The Thick Before Thickoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
The Saw in the Executioner’s Cabinetoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
The Emperor’s Eye at the Bottom of a Valleyoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
The Character for I That Japanese Uses to Mean Weoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
催: The Mountain and the Bird in This Kanji Mean Nothing At Alloriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
取: Why “Most” in Japanese Is a Pile of Severed Earsoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
忙 Does Not Mean Your Heart Is Full. It Means Your Heart Is Gone.original ↗
19 Aug 2026
紹 Is Not a Polite Character. It Is Three Strands Forced Into One Rope.original ↗
18 Aug 2026
設 Is Not Made of Words. It Is a Stake Hammered Into the Ground.original ↗
14 Aug 2026
The Kanji With Too Many Readings To Count (And Why You Only Need One Picture)original ↗
13 Aug 2026
Review Was Never an Opinion. It Was a Weighing.original ↗
13 Aug 2026
Friend and Fight Are the Same Two Handsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
The dropdown that decides whether two of your characters can speak differentlyoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
The Kanji for Battering Ram Is Also the Kanji for Bouncing a Balloriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
The stadium Japan is watching is named after a turtle’s bellyoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
The Kanji for Creation Is a Knife Woundoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
The Kanji for Center Is a Man Locked in a Wooden Collaroriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
The Kanji for Uncle Is a Hand Pulling Beans Out of the Dirtoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Crowdin Just Crowned a Man the Pioneer of an Idea He Demolished in 2021original ↗
31 Jul 2026
The Kanji on Your Bad Fortune Slip Is a Person Falling Into a Pitoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
The Kanji for Breathing In Is a Hand Grabbing a Runawayoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
君: the hand that governs, the mouth that commands, and the boy in your classoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
The Kanji for Victory Isn’t About Winning At All. It’s About Carrying Weight.original ↗
24 Jul 2026
The Kanji for Rare Hides a Bolt of Cloth You Can See Straight Throughoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
The Card in Your Hand Is a Shaving of Woodoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
The Kanji for “Appear” Was the Last One to Appearoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
That Is Not a Well in the Middle of 囲, Those Are Feetoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
The Blabbermouth Is a Fluttering Leaf: お喋りな and the Hidden 枼original ↗
16 Jul 2026
The Hand That Turns the Stone: Why 相反する Means Contradictionoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
The Same Tree in Both Halves: 躁鬱病 (sōutsubyō)original ↗
16 Jul 2026
“A Universal Male Voice”: What Japan Is About To Say About AI Voice Cloningoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
捨て置く: two kanji that both mean “set it down and walk away”original ↗
10 Jul 2026
Only Your Translator Can Judge Your Translation. Japan’s Government Just Explained Why.original ↗
10 Jul 2026
Where Money Still Remembers It Was Clothoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
光 Means Light. It Is a Person With Fire Burning Above Their Head.original ↗
8 Jul 2026
Building the Future, or Packaging It for Sale? Reading the RWS CEO in His Own Wordsoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
The dog hiding inside 突く (to poke, to thrust)original ↗
7 Jul 2026
The Two Blades Inside a Beheading: 刎ねる (haneru)original ↗
7 Jul 2026
The Skeleton Hidden Inside “Almost”: 殆ど (hotondo)original ↗
3 Jul 2026
The Shop That Refused to Haggle: 掛け値なし (kakene nashi)original ↗
2 Jul 2026
Stacking Supermarket Shelves Pays Twice as Much as Localizing World of Warcraftoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
The Whole Way Home, Said Side by Side: 道すがら (michisugara)original ↗
30 Jun 2026
Two Weapons Make a War, and the War Makes You Tremble: 戦 (ikusa)original ↗
29 Jun 2026
Lara Won’t Promise Not to Train on Your Translationsoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
The Toothless Rake That Became the Number Eight: 捌 (sabaku)original ↗
25 Jun 2026
Wedged In: A Bronze Spoon, a Mythical Bird, and the Japanese Word for Being Hookedoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
又: The Right Hand Hiding Inside Friend and Takeoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
A Translator’s Name Is Not a Garbage Binoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2026
The Thorn Tree in Your Tea Boxoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2026
Soft as an Earlobeoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
Magpie, she wroteoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
履 – the kanji with a shoe hidden inside itoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
We Were Aiming for Invisible. The Critics Called It “Incroyable.”original ↗
11 Jun 2026
繁盛する: a thriving businessoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
Phonopolis Has Launched, and the Japanese Bet Paid Offoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
力を貸す: lend your strengthoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
The historian hiding in 使original ↗
6 Jun 2026
You Can’t See the Mistake You Don’t Know Is a Mistakeoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
The Tree Inside the Tasteoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
The Box That Became a Letteroriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
The Clock You Can Actually Readoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
The Tiger Was the Last Thing This Kanji Meantoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
There is no tree in 煤original ↗
26 May 2026
A Thread of Silk, Not a Thread of Wateroriginal ↗
25 May 2026
The Pivot You Were Never Taughtoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
The Shortcut That Works Exactly Onceoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
The Kanji Captain Tsubasa Was Hidingoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
Garlic Came on a Cameloriginal ↗
21 May 2026
A striped village hidden in a robe, cut at the boneoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
There Is No Saw in 築original ↗
18 May 2026
夜 Is Not a Moon. It Is a Setting Sun.original ↗
13 May 2026
Localization Debt Just Found Its Lenderoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
Eleven Days at #1: What KONAMI Knows About Japan That Your Localization Brief Doesn’toriginal ↗
6 May 2026
He Made a Visual Novel With AI in Four Days. We’re Watching It Fail Live on Steam.original ↗
5 May 2026
Why “Miracle” and “Weird” Are the Same Kanji in Japaneseoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
Why Japanese Has Two Words for Therapyoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
Your family is armed (and they have been for 3000 years)original ↗
23 Apr 2026
Pickled in Drama: The Japanese Word for Your Netflix Weekendoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
The Word Japan Used Today to Tell 182 Cities Not to Panicoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
The Japanese word for everything you have ever shaped with your handsoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
One Japanese Word, Three Meanings, Zero Memorizationoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
The Word That Holds Japan Togetheroriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
Crimson Desert: three markets, three narratives, one gameoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
How Loekalization Shipped Dutch for Modulus at 100% Positive Reviewsoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
When Japanese Exists: but Doesn’t Yet Shiporiginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
Grab It With Both Handsoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
Stand Out at Your Own Riskoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
Even Rusty Robots Need a Buddyoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Inside the Machine: How RWS Gutted the Company That Built Itoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
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