When Laurel Rasplica Rodd began studying Japanese language and culture, she was one of only about 7,000 students nationwide. Today, the United States has an estimated 200,000. During the five decades ...

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Japanese and to the culture of Japanese-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least ...

Almost every 14 days, a language dies; that’s about 26 languages a year. And over 2,500 Indigenous languages are currently in danger of disappearing forever — that’s more than a third of our world’s ...

An online “talking dictionary” first launched in 2009 is attempting to preserve and pass on the Ainu language spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of Japan's northeastern island of Hokkaido and ...

With the number of foreign residents in Japan soaring, hundreds of Japanese-language schools have sprung up to meet rising demand. But these hubs of internationalization face daunting financial ...

A long-term Afghan resident of Japan has set up a free language school to help her more newly arrived countrywomen stay connected with their children, who now prefer to converse in Japanese rather ...

MayDell Jenks has been a teacher and administrator of foreign languages for more than 30 years. Not until this November, though, will she be able to make a new language seem not so foreign for ...

Japan is considering making Japanese language proficiency a requirement for permanent residency as foreign residents increase ...

More than a century after colonisation, the Ainu language almost vanished. Now machines are listening to hours of old recordings and learning to give it a new voice. The cassette player would catch ...

The call was made at the Japanese Speech Contest & Japan Guideline Seminar 2025, organised by the Bangladeshi Students’ Support Association in Japan (BSSAJ), held today (21 December) at the Bangladesh ...