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Japanese News, Made Readable

A real NHK news story every day, rewritten at beginner level with an English translation. Free, no login.

The first news story lands tomorrow morning.

Today's Japanese news

Every morning we take one story from NHK News Web Easy and rebuild it as a graded reading exercise: short sentences, beginner grammar, full English translation, and the proper nouns explained.

350+ stories, native audio, tap-to-translate — in the app

The free web library is a curated slice. The Shinobi app has 350+ unique graded stories, native audio for every page, tap-to-translate on every word, JMDict dictionary lookups, and SRS review.