It seems to mirror the criteria for testing of English in Japan. It always seems like ease of marking trumps anything else in testing in Japan. Hence the favouring of multiple-choice tests. It's ...

Takeshi at Saigon kara kita tsuma [サイゴンから来た妻] writes about his Vietnamese wife who took the Japanese Language Proficiency Test [en] [日本語能力試験, nihongo nōryoku shiken] today, as do thousands of other ...

Local students tested their confidence in speaking a language primarily used in a country 5,000 miles away Friday as North Salinas High School hosted the 12th annual Monterey County High School ...

Kazuo and Hiroko Omori are embarking on the final chapter of their decades-long mission to help foreigners learn and master Japanese. The husband and wife, both 84, have been doing it for 36 years, ...

The average correct answer rates in the Japanese language and math sections of a national achievement test for students in Japan in fiscal 2025 fell from the previous year, the education ministry said ...

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 ...

KIT (Kanazawa Institute of Technology) Summer Program in Japanese is a five-week summer study abroad program designed to give participants a rich experience in improving Japanese communication skills ...

The NihongoUp Blog gives an in-depth explanation of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) – “It is a Japanese language test for non-native speakers, held twice a year in East Asia and once a ...