Tokyo 2020 has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to encourage the use of French during next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. The ...

Tokyo 2020 has reportedly decided the Parade of Nations at the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be determined using Japanese language names and the country’s phonetic order. Kyodo News reported that ...

As Japan and Australia prepared to face off in Sunday’s rugby wheelchair bronze-medal final, some viewers in Japan may have seen Yuki Goto reciting both teams’ starting lineups in sign language, hands ...

Foreign words undergo transformation in various ways when they enter another language. The following are some of the technical terms that linguists use to describe such changes. All languages have ...