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With summer on it's way, it is the perfect time for a holiday. If you are in Japan you are in luck!

Meoto Iwa—also known as the Loved one-and-loved one rocks—are a couple of small sacred rocky stacks in the sea near the Okitama Shrine.

Godzilla (Gojira, ゴジラ) is widely regarded as being one of the most iconic characters in Japanese popular culture.

If you're learning Japanese online, there's a big chance that you've heard about Brett Fyfield.

Verb transitivity, similar to valency, indicates whether a verb takes direct objects, or not. Unlike English, which is fairly lax in its rules on transitivity and allows ambitransitive verbs, the Japanese language divides most verbs into two groups: transitive and intransitive. Intransitive: He slept till noon. Transitive: She lifted the bag. Ambitransitive: I broke the cup. and The cup broke. Intransitive verbs are used according to the pattern S + が + V, whereas transitive verbs take on the pattern (S +) ...

I know that you starve for new Japan-related content, and I decided that it's time to stop being a lone wolf and and bring new writers on board. Please welcome two new contributors, Mary from 日本ーSuki and Ben from Ratticon in Japan! Ben is an English graphic designer and interactive media developer with a passion for information design and photography. It is his dream to live and work for a studio based in Japan. At present he is studying the Japanese ...

FujiTV starts airing a new j-dorama, entitled Sunao ni Narenakute: Hard to say I love you, about five young people meeting on a social network.

First of all, Happy Easter! Secondly, as you may have noticed, many updates to NihongoUp branded projects were deployed last week, and especially today. Japan news aggregator The biggest announcement is the launch of a new NihongoUp subsite—Japan news aggregator. The site is a news aggregator ala popurls with several sections to choose from depending on your interests. If you have any suggestions on how I could improve the site, or what resources I should add, please contact me! NihongoUp Desktop The desktop version ...

A new update is here, and it brings a new grammar game mode called Transitivity.

The revolutionary addition to our application's feature set which will allow you to learn and type kanji up to 1410% faster than ever before.