On writing a book on the history of sake in Yamaguchi, translating Strange Pictures by Uketsu, a writer who is always masked, and the challenges of translating from Japanese to English ...

Ranald MacDonald, the son of a Chinook chief and a Scottish settler, staged a shipwreck near Rishiri Island to gain entry into Japan — then a closed country under isolationist policies. Despite being ...

For many of us, calling our teachers by their first names would have been unthinkable. But some teachers are changing the ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

In Maharashtra's rural schools, teachers are innovatively introducing foreign languages like German and Japanese to broaden ...

The English proficiency of public junior high school and senior high school students in Japan continues to improve, a recent education ministry survey for fiscal 2024 showed. The proportion of junior ...

After graduation, Semones moved to New York in the summer of 2022, where she found a job as an assistant teacher at a Japanese preschool. However, her music career led her to quit last year, when ...

GINOWAN CITY, Okinawa — Teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a recent visit to a local elementary school. English ...

A view of the Japanese countryside during a walk he took to get to his job as a visiting teacher in Yoshikawa Minami, another part of Saitama. Nic Lim When I got to Japan, I noticed how limited ...

But what Japanese language phrases are foreign English teachers’ favorites? To investigate, Nova Language Company, which manages the Nova and Gaba English conversation school groups, conducted a ...