Cultural entrainment of motor skill development: Learning to write hiragana in Japanese primary school. Developmental Psychobiology , 2017; DOI: 10.1002/dev.21536 Cite This Page : ...

Most of the good stories we tell can be told in 800 words or less. Let me try one. It involves my father, Ted Clark, who used to have the annoying habit of sucking on ice cubes, which he was doing ...

A Japanese study looked at the development of writing skills in Japanese first-grade students, and revealed aspects of handwriting development that have been largely neglected in research carried ...

So many Japanese are forgetting how to write kanji characters that cultural experts believe the country may eventually scrap the use of Chinese pictograms in favour of the 46 simplified hiragana ...

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