In Japanese, a use of numeral classifier is mandatory to count objects. This lecture discusses the linguistics and pragmatic functions of Japanese numeral classifiers.

Japanese has been importing many words from many languages. This lecture discusses the historical background of loan words in Japanese since 16th century.

This lecture discusses the use of loan words in Japanese today and the related issues.

This video discusses some issues on Japanese vocabulary such as synonyms and homonyms while reading Yamaguchi (2006).

This lecture examines the recent massive "return migration" of Japanese Brazilian immigrant workers to their ancestral homeland of Japan and the problems and challenges of nurturing cultural diversity in Japanese society ...

This lecture delineates a history of one hundred years of Japanese immigration to Latin America, especially Brazil with the largest concentration, as a precondition for the recent return migration of people of Japanese ...

English possesses articles to indicate which nouns are definite or indefinite, while Japanese lacks such a class of words. This lecture discusses how the context in which nouns are used plays a great role for anaphoric ...

Newsletter about "Easy Japanese" for Newcomers to Japan: Asian 344 Japanese language and linguistics Spring 2016

This video discusses what kinds of existential verbs exist in dialects in Japanese while reading Kudo and Yakame (2008).

This video discusses Manyogana through a poem by Empress Jito in Manyoshu and the differences between this poem and her poem that is sited in Shinkokinshu while reading Mano (2011).