Survey Report on Japanese-Language Education Abroad 2006

Provisional Survey Results Released
3.65 million are studying Japanese outside Japan

On July 29, 2010, the Japan Foundation issued a press release to provide the results (provisional figures) of "Survey on Japanese-language Education Abroad 2009".

The outline of the results is as follows:

Results (Provisional Figures) of “Survey on Japanese-language Education Abroad 2009” (PDF:135KB)
Survey on Japanese-language Education Abroad 2009 (The Japan Foundation) (PDF:54KB)

2006 Survey of Overseas Organizations Involved in Japanese-Language Education

Survey Report on Japanese-Language Education Abroad 2006: Present Condition of Overseas Japanese-Language Education (Summary)
*Reference: Outline of the survey released as of Oct 31, 2007

Present Condition of Overseas Japanese-Language Education
A total of 26 pages
(PDF:3.39MB)
How to download files

Foreword (PDF:37KB)

  1. 1.General Overview (PDF:999KB)
  2. 2.Japanese-Language Education, by Region (PDF:40KB)
  3. 3.Japanese-Language Education, by Country (PDF:54KB)
  4. 4.Japanese-Language Studies, by Level of Education (PDF:88KB)
  5. 5.Purposes for Studying Japanese (PDF:56KB)
  6. 6.The Number of Teachers (PDF:39KB)
  7. 7.Problems and Concerns with Japanese-Language Teaching (PDF:40KB)

Appendix Table (PDF:38KB)
Numbers of Japanese-language institutions, teachers, and students, by country (2006)

1998 Survey of Overseas Organizations Involved in Japanese-Language Education
2003 Survey of Overseas Organizations Involved in Japanese-Language Education
Past surveys before 1993

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