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Looking at katakana words, there was a much more diverse group. Once again owing to the war in Ukraine “propaganda” was the most looked up word when rendered in Japanese phonetics. It was followed by ...

A 71-year-old man is suing Japan's public broadcaster NHK for the mental distress they have caused him through their excessive use of foreign words. He is literally lost in translation, in his very ...

In his July 22 article, 'Katakana makes Japanese trendy and accessible,' Roger Pulvers notes that 'Sometimes a foreign katakana word or phrase enters Japanese to replace a perfectly good native ...