The Japanese government has decided to require proof of Japanese language proficiency for individuals seeking the visa status of engineer, specialist in humanities or international services for work r ...

While in English you tend to add words when you want to be polite — would you mind, possibly, please, thank you — Japanese has a whole other language for hierarchy, 敬語 (keigo). 日本では敬語が大切だと考える人は多いです ...

The number of foreign national students attending public schools in need of Japanese language training has tripled over the past 20 years, a Kyodo News analysis of government data showed Sunday, posin ...

Welcome to "Learn Japanese from the News." In this program we learn Japanese and more about Japan from news stories presented in simple Japanese. Today's headline is "Sign Language Interpreters ...