Yoshikai Akira promotes yasashii Nihongo (simple Japanese) as head of the Yasashii Nihongo Promotion Network. In this article ...

WHEN the bombing of Pearl Harbor forced a declaration of war against Japan, it became at once apparent that this country would need large numbers of Americans able to speak and read the language of ...

Kaiko to sensō to Nihongo: Ōbei no Nihon rikai wa kō shite hajimatta (Silkworms, War, and the Japanese Language: How the West Came to Understand Japan), written by the Japanese-language education ...

Alfasado Inc., a subsidiary of The Asahi Shimbun Co., has opened a website to make the newspaper’s coverage more accessible ...

For foreigners who arrive in Japan with little knowledge or preparation, the first encounter with the local lingo can be brutal. In the past, for instance, newcomers would have taken the train from ...

"The number of people learning Japanese has increased and is currently estimated to be more than 3 million worldwide," says Nobuyuki Suzuki, deputy manager of a very special store in Tokyo. "Four ...

AMBASSADOR Kazuya Endo recently paid a courtesy visit to the Nihongo Center Foundation (NCF) Makati Campus, where he was given a tour and received a brief overview of the programs and class offerings.