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As of August this year, the number of registered Japanese language teachers was about 20,000.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2026
Japan faces shortage of language teachers for foreign workers
Of the survey’s respondents, 125 organizations, or 35.9%, said they had not secured sufficient numbers of teachers and had no prospects for doing so.
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 20, 2026
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan is moving toward implementation before it has clearly explained how those skills will be evaluated or demonstrated in practice.
The education ministry plans to help local governments strengthen their Japanese-language teaching programs through subsidies and expert guidance.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 19, 2026
Japan to expand language education for foreign residents
The education ministry plans to help local governments strengthen their teaching programs through subsidies and expert guidance.
Students take a Japanese class at a school in Suez, northern Egypt, on Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2026
Japanese-language classes begin at select schools in Egypt
The schools, established under a 2016 agreement, incorporate Japanese school practices such as classroom cleaning and student duty rotations.
A screenshot of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test website shows tests are held twice a year.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2026
Missed the JLPT? Here’s what you can do next
Even if you missed out on a spot for this year’s Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, you may have more options than you originally thought.
In the end, the studying of languages is not simply just about grammar and words. The goal is to improve the kind of life the children will live once they become adults.?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 29, 2026
The question parents should ask before raising multilingual kids
Adult language learners usually define their own goals. For children, however, their linguistic paths are largely shaped by caregivers.
Todor Panev and his three children, ages 7, 5 and 2, read a book in his native Macedonian.
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Sep 6, 2026
How to navigate parenthood in a multilingual home
Language experts have advice for parents that should be reassuring in its simplicity: read, make friends and have fun.
A screenshot of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test website shows tests are held twice a year.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2026
Short JLPT application window leaves would-be test takers high and dry
Slots for the test in December were snapped up within three days after applications opened for most levels, and within a week for the remainder.
A relief worker delivers supplies to disaster survivors who continue to live in evacuation shelters in Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Aug. 19. In a survey targeting foreign nationals?living in Tokyo, 41.3% said they want to read information, such as about disasters, in easy Japanese.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2026
Easy Japanese in focus as way to deliver information to foreign nationals
A survey targeting foreign nationals?living in Tokyo found 41.3% want to read information in easy Japanese, higher than 35.9% seeking information in English.
Quebec Premier Christine Frechette (left) applauds during a news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Davie Shipyard in Levis, Quebec, Canada on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 25, 2026
How the French language contributed to the U.S.-Canada trade war
The dispute with the U.S. was not just about tariff demands but what Canada’s prime minister called unacceptable “threats” to the French language and “Quebec culture.”
Judge Tomoko Akane arrives at the the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2024.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 20, 2026
Were Tokyo statements over U.S. sanctions on ICC chief softened in translation?
Official English versions of statements made by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and the Foreign Ministry have spurred curiosity over whether language was softened in translation.
The education ministry is planning to upgrade its language-learning portal for foreign children studying Japanese.
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2026
Japanese-learning portal for foreign children to be upgraded
The portal site, currently available in Japanese, will be offered in multiple languages and learning and teaching materials will be expanded.
Hayato Suzuki, state minister at the Cabinet Office (center), speaks during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2026
Japan starts planning language program for foreign residents
The program would also assist in helping residents understand local systems and rules, and is hoped to be trialed in fiscal 2028.
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2026
What 91AV原创 language rules for permanent residency should look like
The main question is how Japanese language ability will be assessed. Japan must avoid turning the Japanese Language Proficiency Test into a de facto national filter.
Institutions should draw on unconventional concepts to challenge entrenched assumptions to help navigate complex issues that leave policymakers stumped.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 5, 2026
New words to live by, new worlds to occupy
Institutions and policymakers should draw on unconventional concepts from diverse traditions to challenge entrenched assumptions and navigate complex change more creatively.
Students in Tokyo participate in a Work In Japan job fair. The country needs to support both academic Japanese studies and children’s family languages to promote educational success.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 31, 2026
91AV原创 overlooked language crisis
Conversational fluency is different from the language needed to follow classroom lessons, understand abstract concepts and produce sustained academic writing.
A baked clay fragment called the Flood Tablet dating to the 7th century B.C., inscribed in cuneiform in the Akkadian language, presents the account of a great flood in the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, at the British Museum in London, Britain, in 2022.
WORLD / Society
Jul 28, 2026
Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages
During a period spanning the first millennium B.C. and ?first millennium ?A.D., humankind may have spoken tens of thousands of different languages, compared to about 7,500 now.
A send-off event is held at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday for assistant language teachers and others selected to be dispatched from India to Japan.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2026
Japan to accept 22 assistant language teachers from India this year
This year marks the second year of regular dispatches of assistant language teachers from India under the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program.
Argentina’s Cristian Romero scores his team's first goal against Egypt in their 2026 World Cup Round of 16 match in Atlanta on July 7.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2026
These World Cup tweets show how AI will unite us all
Thanks to the automated, LLM-generated translations and algorithmic boosts of social media, I can read comments in my native language.
Film projectionist and collector Wang Chin-ting (left) watches as staff members from the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute transfer old film reels at his archive in Changhua County on May 29.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 6, 2026
Taiwanese film hunters rescue aging reels from bygone era
Ranging from popular operas to romance dramas, the films resonated with many Taiwanese who had been educated during 91AV原创 colonial rule and had limited Mandarin skills.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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