How to Use Japanese in a Sentence

Japanese

noun
Definition of Japanesenext
  • He is learning to speak Japanese.
  • The tour, mostly in Japanese, is open to the public and is free of charge.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • The study of tsunamis (the word in Japanese means harbor and wave) began here as well.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • On the floor to the left of the driver's seat are two lever releases for the hatchback and the gas door—pure Japanese.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Even though there were a lot of people who didn’t speak Japanese?
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the Chinese-speaking fans sang along with the chorus in Japanese.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 July 2024
  • So was the aspect of having the characters speak in Japanese always a part of it?
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 18 July 2024
  • If the test goes well, two more bombs will be deployed in mere weeks to kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese — and, the scientists hope, end the war.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • And around Japan, night schools fill a gap for both foreigners and Japanese who missed out on middle school.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The guide responded to Harris in Japanese, to which Harris thanked him in the same language.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • There are several ways to play this game with 144 tiles; Japanese, Filipino and Cantonese styles each have their own rules.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Shohei Ohtani will make an appearance at a local high school to teach hitting and Japanese.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • His answers to questions in English and Japanese were brief.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Zauner is the lead vocalist for the band Japanese Breakfast.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • Ashland Creek runs through the greenspace, which features trails, pickleball courts, a playground and a new and free Japanese Garden.
    — oregonlive, 9 June 2023
  • The new site will be a part of The Huntington's 130-acre botanical garden’s Japanese Garden, which has been part of the site for more than a century.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The mom-to-be also shared screenshots of a message, typed in both English and Japanese, reflecting on her career.
    — Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
  • Last week, an unemployed man attacked the two Japanese at a bus stop outside a Japanese school in Suzhou.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Asia, 2 July 2024
  • And later, Japanese ama, or sea women, numbered in the tens of thousands, diving up to 150 feet and staying there for minutes at a time to collect pearls and seafood.
    — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Over the last few decades, most homeowners have replaced old, overgrown Japanese Yew with boxwoods.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The song is basically in Japanese, so what’s being sung won’t come across (to speakers of other languages).
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 25 July 2023
  • The band spoke to the audience in Japanese and English, sharing their joy at playing in Japan for the first time in such a long while, a sentiment which was palpable to the audience.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Through most of last year, Nuber’s Japanese Auto was overwhelmed with customers.
    — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 15 May 2023
  • The world was so well imagined already, this retro futuristic thing where a lot of the music was ‘50s and ‘60s American-style music, sung in Japanese.
    — Eliza Berman, TIME, 10 July 2024
  • Further, the owner intends to install a couple more venues within the building, one Italian, the other Japanese, yet this year.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • But the scribes who copied the canonical scriptures called sutras during the first centuries of Japanese Buddhism employed a more generic style.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • It’s been a passion project of his for a while now, but he was tied up with an official state visit from Japanese Emperor Naruhito, so Beatrice took the reins this time.
    — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 29 June 2024
  • The results are only written in Japanese, but luckily Dr. Watanabe helped to translate a few of this year's top contenders.
    — Lynda Lin Grigsby, Good Housekeeping, 31 May 2023
  • Yamashiro, the landmark Japanese Revival restaurant in the Hollywood Hills, has been listed for $100 million.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
  • Guests can request Indonesian for breakfast, Italian for lunch, or Japanese for dinner.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2024

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