Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...

The Japanese language alphabet is called the syllabary. It is because each letter in the language represents the whole syllabus in the English language. The characters represent syllables in two ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

The resemblance to the Japanese "Katakana" alphabet runs even deeper than this, actually, as the characters look somewhat similar. We presume this was done in order to make it so that Japanese ...