WHEN the bombing of Pearl Harbor forced a declaration of war against Japan, it became at once apparent that this country would need large numbers of Americans able to speak and read the language of ...

MANILA, Philippines — Jacob Fuentebella, a University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman graduate who now works as a Korean Account Associate, is the grand champion of the 51st Nihongo Speech Contest, ...

Alfasado Inc., a subsidiary of The Asahi Shimbun Co., has opened a website to make the newspaper’s coverage more accessible to readers who may find standard Japanese challenging. The Yasashii Asahi ...

Nihongo dekiru? Since Amazon.com opened for business, its biggest foreign market has been Japan. The company has about 193,000 customers here and they ring up about $34 million worth of sales. Mind ...

On April 29, six schools competed in the Guam Nihongo Challenge Bowl. The high school students competed in three different levels — Japanese I, Japanese II and Japanese III. The students had started ...

Five people dispatched from Japan to assist in Japanese language education in India gathered in New Delhi on Monday for a six-month program aimed at enhancing cultural exchanges between the two ...