The Japan Foundation is holding its 2024 Survey on Japanese-Language Education!

The Japan Foundation (JF) conducts its “Survey on Japanese-Languag Education” every three years in order to confirm the current state of Japanese-Languag education in countries and regions around the world. We will hold the 2024 survey from September 2024. The survey results will be compiled as a report on the latest information concerning the current state of Japanese-Languag education, and will also be utilized on our “search engine for institutions offering Japanese-language education”.

If you have conducted Japanese- language training and have not yet received a request, please contact us at the contact information at the end of this document.

Summary

It takes about 15 minutes and, in principle, the response is online.
We have sent you the URL to the response screen by e-mail.
For details, please see the bottom of this page.

Bonus for responding to survey

After you have submitted your answers you will be able to download supplementary Japanese-Languag teaching materials created by the Japan Foundation.
Please use them in your lessons.

Survey coverage

All organizations with the potential to carry out Japanese-Languag education overseas.

The following are not covered by the survey

• Groups and activities that are not associated with an actual organization
• Overseas educational facilities that carry out ‘kokugo’ (Japanese national language) education only
  *However, overseas educational facilities offering courses that undertake Japanese-language education that is not ‘kokugo’ education will be covered at the departmental/course level.
• Broadcasters or website operators providing Japanese-language education for an unspecified large number of people.
• Short-term Japanese-Languag experience activities

Survey items

(The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.)

Basic information on your organization (organization name, name of Japanese-language education department name, address / URL, contact information, institution type, educational stage (level) (in formal education terms, primary / secondary (lower/upper) / higher, other education), positioning of Japanese-language learning)

Number of teachers (by education stage (level), breakdown of full-time/part-time, number of teachers that are native Japanese-Languag speakers)

Number of Japanese-Languag learners (breakdown by education stage (level))*

Presence or absence of degree conferment / Japanese-language teacher development program / online classes

Purposes and reasons for learners’ Japanese-Languag learning, the state of Japanese-Languag development at your organization

*In the case of primary and secondary education, there is a question about the number of learners studying the Japanese-Languag as a formal subject or as an extracurricular activity, and in the case of universities, there is a question about the number of learners studying the Japanese-Languag as a major, as a non-major, or as an extracurricular activity. Preparing these figures beforehand and having them at hand will help you in completing the survey smoothly.

For specific questions, please see the survey form (English version) (PDF: 53KB)

Survey method

A questionnaire format to be answered online. The survey response website’s URL will be emailed to you.
*In some cases we may seek your cooperation via a different method, such as over the telephone.

We are hoping to have a large number of organizations cooperate with the survey.