National Aug 31, 2018
by Sakura Murakami
The measure is intended to ensure that students who enter Japan to learn the language do not spend the majority of their stay working.
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National Jul 24, 2018
India opens first training center for Japanese-language teachers
India's first training center for teachers of Japanese was officially opened Monday in the capital, New Delhi. The inauguration ceremony for the center, which is a joint project involving the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the Japanese Embassy with the support of the Japan ...
National / Politics May 29, 2018
Diet group drafts bill that aims to promote Japanese language learning at home and abroad
by Tomohiro Osaki
A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveils a draft version of what might become Japan’s first-ever law defining the government’s responsibility to systematically promote Japanese language education.
National Mar 6, 2018
Tokyo aid helps Malaysia solve Japanese-language teacher shortage
Japan has granted a Malaysian school $68,985 in financial aid for teacher training to ease a shortage of Japanese-language instructors in the nation. The funding via the Embassy of Japan in Malaysia will be used to upgrade laboratories and training rooms as well as to ...
National Sep 13, 2017
by Seana K. Magee
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 ...
National Jul 16, 2017
New kid on the block gets the least help in Japan's schools
by Mizuho Aoki
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 ...
National Jun 18, 2017
Love of anime prompts young Filipinos to pursue Japanese studies in select high schools
by Ronron Calunsod
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- ...
National May 8, 2016
Japanese language studies taking root in Vietnam elementary schools
by Ko Hirano
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 ...
National May 29, 2015
More locals dropping accents when speaking with outsiders: survey
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 ...
National Nov 13, 2014
Government honors educator at school in Cambodia that teaches Japanese
by Puy Kea
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 ...
National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Aug 2, 2014
by Edan Corkill
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 ...
Language Jun 29, 2014
Particles create the chemistry of adjectives and adverbs
by Daniel Morales
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 ...