Kuma Sensei — "Waifu, Mottainai, Yōkai: 11 Japanese Words Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2025"
- Author: not surfaced by this project's fetch (Kuma Sensei, a Japanese-language-learning outlet)
- Publication: kumasensei.net
- Date: 2025
- URL: https://www.kumasensei.net/waifu-mottainai-yokai-11-japanese-words-added-to-the-oxford-english-dictionary-in-2025/
- Type: secondary (blog reporting on OED announcements); neutral stance
- Accessed: 2026-09-05
Extract
- Lists, as the complete set of 11 Japanese words this article reports added to the OED in 2025: ekiden, love hotel, mottainai, naginata, pechakucha, senbei, senpai, waifu, washlet, White Day, yōkai. States waifu specifically was added in the March batch.
- Komorebi does not appear in this list or anywhere in the article.
Gaps
- Does not specify which of the 11 words belong to which 2025 quarterly update (only waifu is dated to March); this project cannot confirm from this source alone whether all 11 are March 2025 or spread across the year's several updates.
- Single secondary source for this specific 11-word Japanese tally; not independently cross-checked against a second outlet's identical list, though it converges with this session's other findings (no source anywhere names komorebi as an actual 2025 OED addition).