TOKYO -- Japan plans to help create new language learning materials to support highly skilled foreign workers, filling gaps between education and the needs of businesses, to better situate such ...

In a step forward, Japan is strengthening Japanese-language education for children with foreign backgrounds. Schools and municipalities are expanding specialist instruction, multilingual assistance ...

The government held its first meeting of a working group to establish a program for foreign residents to learn Japanese and understand local systems and rules, with the aim of trialing the plan in ...

Sanae Takaichi enters the prime minister's office on Sept. 2, 2026. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) TOKYO -- The Japanese government is considering creating a program to support Japanese-language learning ...

Japan must strengthen its immigration control to prevent illegal employment while providing more opportunities for foreign residents to learn the Japanese language and deepen their understanding of ...

Sophia University professor Tamotsu Fujita speaks with a Japan representative of EF Education First about the significance of language study in the era of AI, in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Nov. 13, 2024.

Japan is moving forward with plans to establish more formal guidelines for foreign nationals seeking permanent residency in Japan, as part of a broader push by the government to strengthen integration ...

TOKYO -- Japan can accommodate only 7,500 or so foreign trainees at once at Japanese-language schools nationwide under a new immigration program set to launch in April 2027, raising doubts about a ...

More than 8,000 children of other nationalities living in Japan may not be attending school. That finding, from a government survey, has focused attention on the problem. Sixty-two percent of those ...