In her master's thesis submitted to the East Asian Studies Center at USC, Annie Manion argues that among college students in the US, anime has become one of the most important drivers of interest in Japan and Japanese language study....
Great NYTimes article about recent scholarship linking Asian writing systems to cognitive patterns (free registration required). Controversial new works by Hannas (The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity) and Nisbett (The Geography of Thought: How Asians and...
The words for "broken" and "awkward position" in Japanese sound quite similar to my still-untrained ear. Fitting, since my computer is broken and I'm in an awkward position....
If you were ever in doubt about the benefits of chanponism, recent research suggests that early exposure to two languages has cognitive benefits. A recent article in the LA Times writes:. " Kids who grow up in bilingual homes may...
Rikai.com provides an absolutely amazing, essential service - character by character, word by word translation between Japanese and English on web pages. It works like near-magic; as you hold your mouse cursor over a particular Kanji character, and a floating...
For Chanpon.org, we are using some web log publishing software called Moveable Type. We're working with the nice folks that made it to help them develop support for Japanese characters in dates and times. Here's a draft sketch of Japanese...
A whimzikaru rooku atua Japanese adaptation of English words....
