The weak yen and stagnant salaries have dented the image of Japan from around Asia as a place to go for big paychecks and possible quick windfalls. Japan, in fact, is now seen as a “less-chosen ...

Minako Kamimura is giddy with anticipation. How does one say that in Japanese? The Salinas High School teacher is excited about the expansion of Japanese classes at her school. She is in her first ...

Yoshiro Sambire Furukawa is seen participating in an online class at Nabari junior high school in the city of Nabari, Mie Prefecture, on Oct. 16, 2020. (Mainichi/Tatsuo Eto) NABARI, Mie -- Online ...

Spanish professor Javier Gomez of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College also teaches Japanese — the only Japanese classes at a community college in the state. He said it is a love for language that ...

A South Bay high school is celebrating students who helped win several national awards in a competition all spoken in Japanese. Cupertino High School dominated the prestigious Japan Bowl competition ...

A young Japanese woman is fulfilling her dream of teaching her native language abroad through her work at Glenbrook South High School. For the next two years, Eri Kanda, 28, said she will assistant ...

I was recently asked if it is better to move to the countryside in order to learn real Japanese. My answer was, "Wakaran!" ("I don't know!") I moved to a small island in the Seto Inland Sea in the ...

YOKOHAMA -- A public junior high school here treated the time a Vietnamese student spent at private Japanese classes as part of his official school attendance in the 2020 academic year in what is ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (July 26, 2019) -- Men and women slowly trickle into a classroom and take their seats. They hail from places as diverse as the United States, Mexico, Palau, American Samoa and Germany ...