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A Zainichi Korean woman is suing a hotel in Tokyo after they refused to let her check in under her Korean name.

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A recent social media discussion that could have turned dicey instead became a referendum on a single Chinese particle.

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Languages can be stubborn things. You can see this clearly in Japanese, where multiple layers of kanji pronunciation exist to ...

A woman says her boyfriend seemed poised to break up with her for the way she ate yakitori. Does Japan really have a gendered ...

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