Manhwa is a popular form of Korean comics or sequential art. It’s similar to Japanese manga and is sometimes called “Korean-style comics.” The term manhwa is a combination of the words man (meaning “people”) and hwan (meaning “drawing”). Manhwa has been around since the late 19th century and became increasingly popular in the late 20th …
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Learning Hiragana and Katakana, Japan’s two phonetic alphabets, is the first step to learning to read and write Japanese. When most people think of studying Japanese, they think of studying kanji, but Hiragana and Katakana are just as important. The Japanese writing system has three writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana, and kanji. Beginners often focus on …
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The Japanese word yakuza is a blanket term for organized crime groups. In the popular video game series, Yakuza, players explore the fictional city of Kamurocho, which is based on a real district in Tokyo. The recent installment in the series was just released in 2018 and has already been highly successful. The video game …
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