An elementary school here with a growing population of foreign students -- now accounting for over 40% of its roll -- has ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

With the increasing number of foreign residents, the importance of Japanese language education is on the rise. Starting from ...

Learning a new language can feel like climbing a mountain—challenging, yet incredibly rewarding. Japanese, with its rich cultural heritage and fascinating writing systems, is no exception. If you’re ...

Japanese dialects are different variations of the language spoken in various regions of Japan, and mastering them can make your experience richer. For instance, someone speaking in Kansai-ben ...

Yoko Creber works at Schools for Specific Purposes as school learning support offficer. She also works on weekends at JCS ...

The Japan Foundation, an institution under the jurisdiction of the foreign ministry, surveyed institutions offering Japanese language study. It found that more than 3.7 million people were ...

The Agency for Cultural Affairs is soliciting public comments about its plans to change romanization rules of the Japanese language for the first time in about 70 years. A subcommittee of the ...

They were quickly inundated with messages from international college students and Japanese language teachers expressing dismay at the development. The pair are particularly well known for ...