A language teacher in a Japanese secondary school has introduced a novel — if horrifying — new way to teach students English: ...

EXCLUSIVE: Japan’s Nikkatsu Corporation has secured international sales rights to The Chatterboxes, a language barrier-based ...

The initiative is intended to further improve the living environment for residents whose first language is not Japanese.

Japan’s tech sector is gaining momentum and catching the eye of U.S. companies and investors. The startup ecosystem in the nation is going through a slew of positive developments, and the government ...

Tokyo 2020 has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to encourage the use of French during next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. The ...

Tokyo 2020 has reportedly decided the Parade of Nations at the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be determined using Japanese language names and the country’s phonetic order. Kyodo News reported that ...

What does the international dominance of English mean for “minor” languages like Japanese? Novelist and critic Mizumura Minae discusses the development of Japanese as a national language and its ...

Following public calls for stricter requirements, the Immigration Services Agency plans to add Japanese language proficiency as a condition for an entrepreneurs visa, government sources said.

05.09.2018, Tokyo, Japan: The logo for the Summer Olympics Tokyo 2020 at Seaside Park Hockey Stadium. Almost two years before the next matches, the organisers presented the state of preparations for ...