This account provides a comprehensive study of how the Japanese language has developed and adapted, providing a much needed resource for scholars. A History of the Japanese Language is invaluable to ...

Japenese Dialects When you start learning Japanese online, understanding dialects can be both exciting and important.

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters ... culture aided by invention of kana (syllabary for writing Japanese language). Court women ...

Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan's distinctive and fast-changing history. 1. The transformative politics of the Meiji revolutions Eiko ...

This immersion introduces students to the language, customs, and cultural aspects (history, art, literature, politics, anthropology, and music) of Japan. The immersion consists of three language ...