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FY2022 Program Activity Summaries
Summary of Japanese-Language Education Overseas Programs

1. Promoting the JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education

  • JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education website accessed approximately 235,000 times in 12 months
  • 'Minna no Can-do' Website accessed approximately 283,000 times in 12 months
  • Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture published overseas edition in 3 levels in 2 countries
  • Irodori: Japanese for Life in Japan enhanced content with grammar worksheets and more
  • Broadcast and distributed ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese! (coproduced with NHK Educational)
  • Launch of ひきだすにほんご Activate Your Japanese! Content-Library website
  • Broadcast and distributed NHK WORLD JAPAN's Easy Japanese (supervisory role)
  • Providing information at various online seminars and training sessions in Japan and overseas

2. Online Educational Tools

  • Approximately 143,000 annual participants for JF Japanese e-Learning Minato
  • Approximately 32,000 annual participants in the Irodori Japanese Online Course
  • 'Minna no Kyozai' Website accessed approximately 1.35 million times in 12 months
  • MARUGOTO website accessed approximately 5.49 million times in 12 months
  • MARUGOTO Plus websites accessed approximately 7.56 million times in 12 months
  • Irodori: Japanese for Life in Japan website accessed approximately 2.98 million times in 12 months
  • Hirogaru, get more of Japan and Japanese website accessed approximately 510,000 times in 12 months
  • Japanese in Anime & Manga website accessed approximately 1.37 million times in 12 months
  • NIHONGO eな website accessed approximately 870,000 times in 12 months
  • Nihongo de Care-Navi website accessed approximately 660,000 times in 12 months
  • "Erin's Challenge! I Can Speak Japanese." Contents Library website accessed approximately 1.58 million times in 12 months
  • Challenge with Erin - Japanese Language Test - (beginner-level learning app) downloaded approximately 9,400 times in 12 months
  • HIRAGANA Memory Hint (character learning app) downloaded approximately 130,000 times in 12 months
  • KATAKANA Memory Hint (character learning app) downloaded approximately 70,000 times in 12 months
  • KANJI Memory Hint 1, 2 & 3 (character learning app) downloaded approximately 70,000 times in 12 months
  • Production supervision of NHK WORLD JAPAN's Easy Japanese Plus: Japanese for Pop Culture

3. Tests for Assessing Japanese-Language Proficiency

  • Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT)
    1st Test (July 3):
    Overseas: Held in 141 cities in 52 countries/regions, with 215,352 examinees.
    Japan*: Held in 47 prefectures, with 141,153 examinees.
    2nd Test (December 4):
    Overseas: Held in 193 cities in 81 countries/regions, with 241,299 examinees.
    Japan*: Held in 47 prefectures, with 190,150 examinees.
    *In Japan, the test is run by Japan Educational Exchanges and Services (JEES).
  • The Japan Foundation Test for Basic Japanese (JFT-Basic)
    19 cities in 11 overseas countries and 47 prefectures in Japan, with 46,632 examinees

4. Surveys and Provision of Information Relating to Japanese-Language Projects

  • Release of report and various summary tables, etc. for the Survey Report on Japanese-Language Education Abroad 2021
  • The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Education Bulletin issued annually
  • Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin (updated monthly) accessed approximately 420,000 times in 12 months
  • Operation of website Nihongo Kyôiku Kuni·Chiikibetsu Jôhô (Information on Japanese-language education by country/region; available in Japanese)

5. Japanese-Language Education Overseas Programs of Overseas Offices and the JF Nihongo Network ("Sakura Network")

  • Projects by Japan Foundation's overseas offices and Japan Center for Human Resources Development (Japan Center) branches: 289 projects in 28 countries
  • JF Nihongo Network ("Sakura Network"): 357 organizations in 102 countries/regions
    Support for overseas Japanese-language education institutions (grants): 348 grants in 63 countries/regions

6. Dispatch of Japanese-Language Specialists

Dispatch of Japanese-Language Specialists and other personnel

  • Japanese-Language Senior Specialists: 30 posts in 21 countries
  • Japanese-Language Specialists: 76 posts in 37 countries
  • Japanese-Language Assistants: 12 posts in 11 countries
  • Japanese Language Education Assistant Program (J-LEAP): 12 posts in 1 country
  • Japanese for Life in Japan Coordinators: 11 posts in 5 countries

7. NIHONGO Partners Programs

  • NIHONGO Partners: 279 people in 9 countries/regions
  • Co-organized seminar with Saitama Prefecture, "Utilizing Your Experiences Participating in Overseas Residential Programs - Connecting to Activities Rooted in the Community": 40 participants

8. Training Programs for Overseas Teachers

Training Programs for Teachers of the Japanese Language

  • Basic (in Japan): 44 people in 30 countries
  • Comprehensive Teaching Methods (in Japan): 30 people from 22 countries
  • Training Program for Secondary School Teachers of the Japanese Language from the Republic of Korea (in Japan): 23 people from 1 country
  • Training Program for Secondary School Teachers of the Japanese Language from the People's Republic of China (in Japan): 9 people from 1 country
  • Training Program for Secondary School Teachers of the Japanese Language from the Philippines (in Japan): 21 people from 1 country
  • Specific Theme: 75 people from 21 countries/regions
    • JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education (online): 8 people from 5 countries/regions
    • Teaching Conversation (online): 20 people from 15 countries/regions
    • Teaching Grammar (online): 11 people from 9 countries/regions
    • Japanese-Language Education and Culture (online): 10 people from 7 countries/regions
    • Teaching Writing Composition (online): 16 people from 12 countries/regions
    • Teaching Reading Comprehension (online): 10 people from 8 countries/regions
  • Japanese-Language (in Japan): 40 people from 19 countries
  • Japanese Teaching Methods Program for Teachers of Specified Skilled Workers Candidates: 87 people from 8 countries
    • Session 1 (in Japan): 24 people from 7 countries
    • Session 2 (in Japan): 24 people from 6 countries
    • Session 3 (in Japan): 23 people from 7 countries
    • Online: 16 people in 5 countries
  • Japanese-Language Training Program for Queensland Teachers invited by Osaka Prefectural Government: 5 people from 1 country
  • Intensive Training Program for Thai Secondary School Teachers: 30 people from 1 country
  • Irodori Japanese Online Course utilization seminar (January 2023)
    (online): 65 people from 10 countries

9. Training Programs for Overseas Learners

Japanese-Language Program for Specialists

  • In FY2021 (continued from FY2021 to FY2022)
    Foreign Service Officers and Public Officials (online): 33 people from 29 countries
  • In FY2022
    Foreign Service Officers and Public Officials: 28 people from 25 countries
    Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields / 5-month course: 8 people from 7 countries
    Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields / 2-month course: 10 people from 7 countries
    Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields / Specialized Activities in Japan: 10 people from 8 countries

Japanese-Language Programs for Overseas Students

  • Lee Soo-Hyun Youth Exchange Program: 20 people from 1 country

10. Preparatory Japanese-Language Training for Indonesian and Filipino Nurses and Certified Care Worker Candidates under Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA)

6-month Preparatory Japanese-Language Training for Nurses and Certificated Care Workers Candidates in Indonesia and the Philippines

  • EPA-related training: 4 programs in 2 countries
    FY2021(continued from FY2021 to FY2022): 289 from Indonesia / 232 from the Philippines
    FY2022 (new): 315 from Indonesia / 256 from the Philippines

11. Commissioned Training Programs

Training for Teachers

Hakuhodo Foundation / Japanese Language Exchange Program Preparatory Training in Japan for Overseas Teachers: 10 people from 9 countries

Training for Learners

  • Japanese-Language Program for Indonesian University Students (Commissioned by Osaka Gas Foundation of International Cultural Exchange): 4 people from 1 country
  • Japanese–Language Program for Students of Griffith University: 18 people from 4 countries
  • Japanese Short-Stay Insession Program from Osaka University, 2022: 19 people from 3 countries
  • Immersion Program for Japanese teachers in New Zealand (online): 10 people from 1 country

12. Other Training Programs

  • Japanese-Language Program for JET Participants in Osaka
    Session 1: 22 people from 4 countries
    Session 2: 36 people from 8 countries
  • JET Training Program for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (in Japan) 30 people from 15 countries
  • Program for educational leaders from 7 Southeast Asian countries to visit Japan, co-organized with the Kamenori Foundation: 24 people from 7 countries

13. Libraries of Japanese-Language Institutes

  • The Library of the Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa received 6,814 visitors (reserved books rental service was available during the temporary closure)
  • The Library of the Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai received 9,195 visitors