For three inner-city Chicago teens, vivid memories of traveling to Japan with their Japanese-born schoolteacher, as part of a program initiated by a former prime minister, was a turning point that forever changed their lives. Erionna Tucker recalls the two trips she took while attending ...
Ever since 16-year-old Rabina Dangol moved from Nepal to Japan in 2014 to live with her parents, a nonprofit organization in Fussa, western Tokyo, has been a boon in helping her learn enough Japanese to survive the school system. "I didn't understand a word of ...
Schoolmates Beatrize Chee and Gio Franza from Manila's financial district of Makati are both self-confessed anime fans. As such, it was only natural for them to decide to enroll in the Japanese language and culture course that Makati Science High School has been offering ninth- ...
When Pham Quang Hung started studying Japanese at Foreign Trade University in Hanoi in 1994, he never imagined that Vietnamese children would one day be able to learn the language in elementary school. Now the first secretary for educational affairs at the Vietnamese Embassy in ...
More Japanese switch between using standard Japanese and various dialects according to who they are speaking with, a National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics survey has showed. The institute has been conducting a survey once every 20 years to look into the changes in ...
Kong Vorn, a former journalist who survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields and later emigrated to Japan, runs the only school in Cambodia that provides Japanese language classes at the junior high and high school level. Since 1999, the Cambodia-Japan Friendship Middle and High School ...
100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Aug. 16 1914 Emperor, councilors weigh war declaration The Emperor of Japan, his councilors and his Ministers met yesterday in the Grand Council Chamber of the Palace to consider the most momentous question such august councils are ever called upon to ...
I first started studying Japanese the summer after my first year of college. I was still promising my parents that I would take the med school prerequisites and eventually become a doctor, but I knew going in to college that all I really wanted ...
Japan needs to make bigger efforts to promote its culture and gain public support for the promotion of Japanese-language education overseas, according to a linguistics scholar who has taught the language for more than 40 years in the United States. Princeton University professor emeritus Seiichi ...
My friend Naoki has a new strategy when it comes to getting dates; these days he says the best bet is to kusuguru (くすぐる, tickle, or appeal to) a woman's sense of aikokushin (愛国心, patriotism). This seems like a risky undertaking, considering that aikoku (愛国, ...
Students of Japanese are often Japanese-as-a-second-language (JSL) cavemen. JSL cavemen live a mostly pleasant existence of blissful ignorance, using a devolved form of the language as best they can. However, JSL cavemen are not total ignoramuses — their thick hide can be penetrated by ...
Some men go out to buy that flaming red sportscar. Others embark on a messy but absorbing divorce process. Then there is of course, nirvana: the gorufujō (ゴルフ場, golf course). But in Japan, when men hit a certain age they have another option to ...
