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On the Brink and Soaking Wet: 瀬, the Kanji for Crisis and Tearsoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2025
The Fancy Underwear of Kanji: 帛 (haku)original ↗
19 Nov 2025
This Pot Is Hotter Than Your Ex’s Apology Textoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
Why This Kanji Sounds Like Your Neighbors Fighting at 3AMoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2025
Swamps, Pickles, and Mao: The Wild World of 沢 (taku)original ↗
14 Nov 2025
Whose Neck Was It?original ↗
13 Nov 2025
Together, With Soup and Vengeance: Meet 倶 (gu)original ↗
13 Nov 2025
Raw Talent, Dam Good: The Tale of 才original ↗
12 Nov 2025
When a Tree Becomes a Mochi Wrapper, and a Kanji Misunderstandingoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2025
披: When Leather Became a Lifestyleoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
Thus Spoke the Axe and the Sieve: 斯, the Separator of Stuff and Sentencesoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2025
The King Who Mastered the Art of Damp Diplomacy: 沾original ↗
8 Nov 2025
The Kanji That’ll Stretch Your Noodles and Your Patience: 伸original ↗
7 Nov 2025
Spit, Soil, and the Art of Cultivationoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2025
趣 – The Kinkiest Kanji You’ve Ever Collectedoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2025
The Mask of the Rising Sun: When Foreign Nationalists Pretend to Be Japaneseoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
A Sheep, a Halberd, and a Polite Society Walk into a Bar…original ↗
4 Nov 2025
The Umbrella Kanji That Secretly Spells “Eighty”original ↗
3 Nov 2025
The Collapse of RWS: Facts, Cash, and the Cost of Evasionoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2025
庶民: When You’re Just One Spark in the Greasy Fire of Societyoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2025
航: The Power Pose of the High Seas (and Skies)original ↗
31 Oct 2025
Open Sesame, Respectfully Yours: The Tale of 啓 (kei)original ↗
30 Oct 2025
計: The Art of Talking Your Way Into Controloriginal ↗
29 Oct 2025
The Bamboo Tube That Did It All (From Tea to War)original ↗
28 Oct 2025
The Art of Stealing… a Snack: The Curious Case of 盗original ↗
27 Oct 2025
The Word Wars: How Translation Bent Truth, Built Fear, and Cost Livesoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2025
Why Laughter Is Basically Slender Bamboozlementoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2025
The Country That Builds Churches to Contain Fire, Not Spread Itoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
What Is Really Happening to Japanoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Shine Bright Like a Bakufu Warship: The Kanji 光original ↗
24 Oct 2025
忽: The Kanji That Disappears Mid-Sentence and Takes Your Beer (and Mongolia)original ↗
23 Oct 2025
Throwing Sake and Shade: The Divine Bureaucracy of 鄭original ↗
22 Oct 2025
The Meaty-Handed General and the Longest Finger of Motivation: 奨original ↗
21 Oct 2025
Dutch Acting Minister Explains Nexperia Intervention and Legal Basis in National Intervieworiginal ↗
21 Oct 2025
聴: The Kanji That Listens Better Than Your Ex Ever Didoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2025
Stacks on Stacks on Stacks: The Rice Cooker Kanji That Rules Them Alloriginal ↗
18 Oct 2025
The Phantom Kanji That Asks “WTF?” (And Occasionally Just Vibes)original ↗
17 Oct 2025
From Trade Secrets to State Secrets: How the Nexperia Saga Came Full Circleoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
The Lost Kanji of Sitting (and Suppositories)original ↗
16 Oct 2025
Tied Down by Kanji: 結 Is One Knotty Characteroriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
How China Sees the Netherlands After the Nexperia Interventionoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2025
懐: The Pocket Where You Store Your Feelings, Flashlights, and Regretsoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2025
Stay Low, Stay Humble. The Secret Life of 低 (hiku(i))original ↗
11 Oct 2025
Pottery, Puns, and Presents: The Wild Mid-Life Crisis of 呉 (kure)original ↗
10 Oct 2025
Eye See You: The Wild, Multi-Talented Life of 目 (me)original ↗
9 Oct 2025
The Forgotten Sandwich Kanji: 夾 (kyō)original ↗
7 Oct 2025
A Historic Shift in Japan’s Political Landscapeoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
The Three-Handed Salary: Why 俸 Is the Most Polite Paycheck Everoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2025
The Economics of Game Localization: Why Consolidation Costs More Than It Savesoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2025
Cut to the Chase: Meet 切 (kiru), the Samurai of Everyday Lifeoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2025
The Kanji That’s Basically a Tattooed Stalker: 艮original ↗
1 Oct 2025
Google Translate was there. Her mother isn’t.original ↗
30 Sept 2025
敖: The Kanji That Went Outside Once and Never Shut Up About Itoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2025
The Great Greenwashing Hoax: The UK Government Says You Are the Problem, and AI Is the Climate Saviororiginal ↗
25 Sept 2025
The Kanji That Always Comes Back: Why 還 Is the Boomerang of Japaneseoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
We Still Give a Shitoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
Haruka in Crisis: Voice Actor Overhaul, Mobile Shift, and the Future of a Legendary Otome Seriesoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
How an Axe, a Mouth, and Cherry Blossoms Invented Japanese Philosophyoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
Kanji That Says “Obey Me, Peasant!” – Meet 従 (shitagau)original ↗
22 Sept 2025
縁談: When Grandma Turns Your Love Life Into a Business Meetingoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2025
座 (suwaru): To Sit Like You Mean Itoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2025
列 (retsu) – The Art of Bone-Crunching Queue Managementoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2025
下 (shita): The Down-Low on “Down”original ↗
18 Sept 2025
Kanji of the Day: 晩 (ban) — When the Sun Irish Exitsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
The Icons Who Defined Konami’s MSX Sound Are Back — And Their New Game Is Bounty Sistersoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
Kanji of the Day: 原 (gen) – Where It All Begins (Even the Fish Smell)original ↗
11 Sept 2025
讐: When Two Birds and a Tongue Invent Revengeoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2025
穴 (ana): Hole, cave, existential void with real estate potentialoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2025
妻: From Housewife to Lightning Bolt in One Kanjioriginal ↗
7 Sept 2025
When a Blog Image Becomes a Battlefield: Absolutism, AI, and the Death Threats That Followoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2025
Silksong’s Real Final Boss: The Translator Who Broke His NDA and Wrote Like a Dead Poetoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
Kanji of the Day: 筆 (fude – brush, writing tool, elegance on a stick)original ↗
5 Sept 2025
指 (yubi / sasu): The finger that points… straight at the snacks.original ↗
4 Sept 2025
Why This One Kanji Is Basically a Passive-Aggressive Weather Report: 雲 (kumo – cloud)original ↗
2 Sept 2025
Horus Music Told Spotify I Don’t Own My Own Musicoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2025
Village Vanguard in Crisis: The End of Japan’s Weirdest Bookstore?original ↗
1 Sept 2025
纜 (ran / tomozuna) — When You Need a Rope So Serious, It Has a PhD in Containmentoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2025
How Japan Accidentally Gamified Paying Taxesoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2025
片: The Savage Little Kanji That Cleans, Cuts, and Closes the Dealoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2025
How One Kanji Rules as King, Crush, and Classmateoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2025
Palworld’s AI Translations Are So Bad They Make Pokémon With Guns Look Like Shakespeareoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2025
The Mongolian Dog That Flattened the Internet (and ROF-MAO)original ↗
30 Aug 2025
Japan Declares National Grill Yourself Into Oblivion Dayoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2025
60 Trillion Yen in the Sock Drawer?! Japan’s Secret Stash Scandaloriginal ↗
28 Aug 2025
Kanji of the Day: 参. When Joining Means Sparkle, Hairpins, and Humble Power Movesoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2025
Kanji of the Day: 招 (shō / maneku) – The Classy Summonoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2025
Samurai Orthopedics: The Kanji 別 and Its Knee-Splitting Pastoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2025
“Heisei 1-Digit Gachi Babaa”: The Japanese Internet Slang That Just Roasted a Whole Generationoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2025
Netflix Just Stole Baseball From Your TV — And Japan Can’t Stop Talking About Itoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Kisarazu and the Nigerian “Hometown” Panic: How a Mistranslation Ignited a National Firestormoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2025
Kanji of the Day: 店 — Where Fortune-Telling Became Shoppingoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2025
Ishiba’s Gamble: Why Japan’s Prime Minister Is Still Standingoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2025
Unbabel’s Corpse, TransPerfect’s Feastoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2025
記: The Kanji That Turns Gossip Into Historyoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2025
涼 (suzushii): Japan’s Original Air-Conditioning Apporiginal ↗
23 Aug 2025
鐘 (shō / kane) – When the bell tolls, it tolls deep.original ↗
23 Aug 2025
Thou Shalt Not Pass! 減 (heru / herasu)original ↗
23 Aug 2025
螺, the sound you make when trying to remember where your screwdriver wentoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2025
The Kanji So Rare, It Only Stars in One Word, And Still Steals the Showoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2025
Shibuya Panic: Tear Gas Spray Incident at Hikarie Sparks Alarm in Tokyooriginal ↗
23 Aug 2025
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