Katakana is a part of the written Japanese language used for foreign terms and names. Learn this script to recognize many familiar words from other languages.

Katakana Flashcards (For printing out on Avery 5371 Business Cards.) This website was co-developed by Andrea Shea (ashea@csus.edu) and Professor Masuyama (kmasuyama@csus.edu) at Sacramento State ...

"Kodansha's Katakana Workbook" is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as efficiently as ...

Words and phrases in katakana may appear to be easily recognizable to non-native speakers of Japanese, but they are often fiendishly difficult. This generally comes as a surprise to Japanese, who ...

Thanks to everyone who has been playing Dinosaurs and Katakana and entered the contest we ran last month. The scores at the end were absolutely ...

Amidst all of the controversy flaring up in Japan over “kirakira names,” the question has been raised concerning a rather peculiar name trait shared by many old Japanese women. A large number of aging ...

In this photo from the German Olympic soccer team's official Instagram account, players are seen traveling while wearing polo shirts with "Germany" written in Japanese katakana phonetic characters ...

Learn to write and read Katakana, one of the basic Japanese syllabaries. Free download of PDF Katakana chart. Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, provides these reliable Japanese lessons.

A favourite among many of Tokyo's cloth- and fabric-biased DIYers, the Kata Kata craft unit usually only sell their cutesy, colourful tenugui handkerchiefs, fur ...

Eliminating katakana's use as a pronunciation aide would benefit Japanese students' ability to communicate, but that clearly can't be achieved overnight. However, it's still worth putting up a ...