A Tokyo school for the deaf stands out not just because it has sent five graduates to represent Japan at the Deaflympics in ...

February 9 - Japan's former Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe was today elected the new Governor of Tokyo, promising to make the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics "a success". The 65-year-old, a close ally ...

An introduction to modern Japanese stressing oral-aural facility but including an introduction to written Japanese. Two classes, three hours of drill and conversation. No credit is given for JPN 101 ...

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 ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has stationed officers who speak English at two koban in Shibuya and Shinjuku. The police department said the two koban are in front of Shibuya Station and in ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — The French language has been almost invisible during the drawn-out preparations for next year’s Tokyo Olympics. News conferences in Tokyo are conducted in Japanese or in English — or with ...

The Art of Living Foundation inaugurated its Japanese Language Academy in Bengaluru, launched by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and former President Ram Nath Kovind.