How to Use Japanese in a Sentence

Japanese

noun

• He is learning to speak Japanese.
• Even though there were a lot of people who didn’t speak Japanese?
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The drink menu is lined with sake, wine, and Japanese takes on classic cocktails.
  — Essence, 13 Aug. 2024
• The spot will focus on hot Japanese with a small amount of raw ingredients.
  — Rachel Dube, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• This is despite the fact that the crime rate for foreign nationals is around the same as for Japanese.
  — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
• Many of the Chinese-speaking fans sang along with the chorus in Japanese.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 July 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
• So was the aspect of having the characters speak in Japanese always a part of it?
  — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 18 July 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
• His first race with the new team will be the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix next month.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
• To combine the best qualities of a high-end cocktail lounge with an old-school Japanese izakaya.
  — Katie Chang, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• Shohei Ohtani will make an appearance at a local high school to teach hitting and Japanese.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Amerland compares Japanese Walking to city driving for a car.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
• The guide responded to Harris in Japanese, to which Harris thanked him in the same language.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 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 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
• All wore dark formal kimonos and solemnly made the sign of the cross in front of their faces before starting their prayers — a mix of archaic Japanese and Latin.
  — Foster Klug, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
• Ashland Creek runs through the greenspace, which features trails, pickleball courts, a playground and a new and free Japanese Garden.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 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
• 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
• Off in the distance on the fringes of the hills were little groups of Japanese regarding the strange Western spectacle in quiet isolation.
  — Greg Mitchell august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 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, 25 Nov. 2024
• 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, 23 Dec. 2024
• Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku in its original Japanese, is a mindfulness practice that involves immersing oneself in nature.
  — Renée Onque, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Daniel Cadwell, an American living in Tokyo, exports used Japanese camper vans and wagons to the United States.
  — David Dolan, USA Today, 7 Aug. 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, 29 Aug. 2023