OSAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--The city government plans to establish a municipal Japanese language school to attract foreign students in the hopes they will reside here after graduation, which will help ...

U.S. influencer Ananya Donapati shares useful tips on learning English and Japanese with her 700,000 followers on social media. Some of the headlines she has used include “English words that you could ...

In an increasingly diverse Japan, more and more young people come from non-Japanese backgrounds. Ensuring that they get the training they need to succeed in the Japanese language, at higher levels of ...

When Nagiko Umino started out as a Japanese language teacher, she didn’t realize how much she would end up learning from her foreign students. Last year, she released Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo ...

Foreign words undergo transformation in various ways when they enter another language. The following are some of the technical terms that linguists use to describe such changes. All languages have ...

Japanese language schools are meeting with renewed scrutiny as Japan braces for an influx of foreign workers under new immigration rules set to go into effect in April. In a candid interview, a ...

Master basic grammar! Also－words that sound like what they describe. "Easy Japanese" is a program of Japanese language lessons produced by Japan's public ...

The Japan Times Publishing, Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Hideki Ito) opened its digital store, “The Japan Times Publishing Digital Store” (https://store. jtpublishing. co.jp/), in ...

Fostering an environment where foreign nationals can carry out their daily lives as a part of society without worry is becoming a growing challenge for Japan. An important part of realizing this goal ...