From 2017 to 2019, the University of Melbourne, in Australia's southeastern state of Victoria, is celebrating 100 years of Japanese language education.
Although Japanese is the most widely taught foreign language in Australian schools today, the university is only one of two post-secondary institutions in the country with such long-running Japanese programs.
In 1917, Senkichi "Moshi" Inagaki began teaching Japanese to private students — including high-profile individuals such as the then-director of military intelligence — at the university's Trinity College.