How to Use Japanese in a Sentence

Japanese

noun
  • Even though there were a lot of people who didn’t speak Japanese?
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2023-08-16
  • The tour, mostly in Japanese, is open to the public and is free of charge.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 2023-05-09
  • The study of tsunamis (the word in Japanese means harbor and wave) began here as well.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 2024-01-03
  • The drink menu is lined with sake, wine, and Japanese takes on classic cocktails.
    — Essence, 2024-08-13
  • This is despite the fact that the crime rate for foreign nationals is around the same as for Japanese.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-07-20
  • 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, 2023-04-16
  • So was the aspect of having the characters speak in Japanese always a part of it?
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2024-07-18
  • 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, 2023-11-14
  • His first race with the new team will be the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix next month.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 2025-03-12
  • To combine the best qualities of a high-end cocktail lounge with an old-school Japanese izakaya.
    — Katie Chang, Forbes, 2024-12-27
  • Zauner is the lead vocalist for the band Japanese Breakfast.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 2023-06-14
  • The guide responded to Harris in Japanese, to which Harris thanked him in the same language.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 2023-10-31
  • And certainly millions of Japanese would’ve been killed either in combat bombings or by disruption of the food supply.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Ashland Creek runs through the greenspace, which features trails, pickleball courts, a playground and a new and free Japanese Garden.
    — oregonlive, 2023-06-09
  • 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, 2023-09-12
  • The 21-year-old Japan striker points at her elbow (Hiji in Japanese), then shoulders (kata), as fans cheer.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But the idea of a Japanese take on Oz proves more intriguing than the reality in this 1982 version of the story.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 2024-11-25
  • The two Japanese OEMs want to merge by 2026, creating the world's third-largest car company in the process.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2024-12-23
  • After almost three years, Netflix’s Japanese sci-fi thriller drama series Alice in Borderland is dropping new episodes.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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, 2023-08-29
  • Since her debut in 2004, Mizuki Tsujimura has written over forty books in Japanese, three of which have been translated into English, with more on the way.
    — Yuki Tejima august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The firm adds Dishoom to its growing slate of restaurant investments, including Japanese Kobe beef chain Kisshokichi and Spanish casual dining brand Goiko.
    — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Hulu offers four seasons of Naruto, nine seasons of Shippuden, and one season of Boruto, with episodes varying between English dubs and original Japanese with subtitles.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • During her widowhood, in the early 1000s, out of grief or boredom, Lady Murasaki began writing The Tale of Genji in Japanese.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Immigration agents arrested people outside the center, the site where Japanese-Americans bound for internment during World War II were rounded up.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • At least 113 first-generation Japanese Americans were shipped to the base before being sent to other holding areas across the country, according to records compiled by Ireizō, a nonprofit database of Japanese Americans held in internment.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Because Japanese is not offered in any district high schools, Sudbrook Magnet Middle School’s Japanese program is beginning its sunset in the fall by not accepting new sixth-grade applications for school year 2026-2027.
    — Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Checkers of my era—their number grew from twenty to twenty-five during my three-year tenure—collectively spoke fifteen languages, including Urdu, Cantonese, Japanese, Arabic, Greek, Russian, and Twi, with a working knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The film is available in both English and Japanese, with its English voice cast boasting Luca Padovan, Pattinson, Gemma Chan, Christian Bale, Mark Hamill, Pugh, Willem Dafoe, Dave Bautista and more.
    — Charlotte Walsh, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Matsuda also took two busloads of the district’s students to Manzanar in 2017 for the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
    — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025

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