Educators are raising concerns that while the number of international students is on the rise, these students do not have the same access to language-learning opportunities depending on where they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s face it—Japanese can feel like a language that belongs in a different world. Three scripts (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji), thousands of characters, unfamiliar grammar rules, and an entire culture ...

Cardemy, a pioneering global startup in language education with offices in Paris and Tokyo, is launching its innovative language learning mobile app. Successfully funded within 4 hours on Kickstarter, ...

In early 2026, the city of Fukuoka began testing a new approach to Japanese language education. Online classes linking four elementary schools were conducted from Fukuoka Municipal Haruyoshi ...

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 ...

He cited an example of one Japanese scholar Tanaka san who learnt Gujarati language to study Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography ...

Shoji Hiroyuki, 67, spends more than 30 hours a week helping people learn Japanese through a chat service called "Sail." The platform, developed by a Japanese company, pairs native volunteers, mainly ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a fun hobby ...