New Japanese words are creeping in the vocabulary of Western society. While many of them aren’t in English dictionaries yet, the Internet is flooded with them.

Type in “kawaii” (cute), “etchi” (indecent), “otaku” (fanatic), “bishojo” (beautiful young girl), or “onigiri” (rice ball), on Google’s search engine and you’ll come up with thousands of results for each.

Why have words such as these infiltrated the language? One reason, it seems, is the popularity of anime - Japanese animation characterized by colorful graphics and lively characters.

If you observed, you’ll find these are the top three words: “Anime” - Animation originating in Japan, “Manga” - Japanese comics and “Hentai” - Explicit sexual or pornographic content.

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