Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin

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Nihongokyoiku Tsushin provides Japanese-language teachers, in particular those overseas, with information on teaching materials, teaching ideas for the classroom, current topics in Japan, the situation of Japanese-language education both in Japan and abroad, and so on.

What's New

Nihongo Kyoiku News

New!Updated on January 6, 2026

CEFR level to be added for reference to JLPT score reports (available in Japanese only)

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Current Report on Japanese-Language Education

Updated on November 4, 2025

IRODORI Marathon: A Learning Journey of Japanese-Language Teachers in the Philippines (available in Japanese only)

Junko Atagi (Japanese-Language Education Adviser, the Japan Foundation, Manila)

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Japanese-Language Education for Children Connected to Japan

Updated on October 1, 2025

Oyamoriuta, Poems Woven with Words for Someone Special; Renga (Linked-Verse Poetry) Activities between Parents and Children (available in Japanese only)

Sawako Nemoto AFJPS (Association Franco-Japonaise Paris Sud)

Children's writing on paper.

Ideas for Japanese-Language Classrooms

Updated on July 1, 2025

Let's make a poster with a world timeline! (available in Japanese only)

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Research on the Japanese Language & Japanese Language Education

Updated on December 1, 2025

Expanding the Possibilities of Japanese-Language Education through CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning (available in Japanese only)

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View Language Through the Japanese

Updated on December 2, 2024

Thinking about Voice in Japanese Grammar (2): The Forms and Meanings of Transitive and Intransitive Verbs (available in Japanese only)

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Enjoy Japanese Grammar

Updated on March 31, 2017

How to Express One's Feelings and Thoughts -Adversative-(available in Japanese only)

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Columns

Nihongo Kyoiku News / Ideas for Japanese-Language Classrooms / View Language Through the Japanese / Enjoy Japanese Grammar / Research on the Japanese Language & Japanese Language Education / Current Report on Japanese-Language Education

Past columns

Bookshelf / The First Step for Teaching Japanese / Aspects of Japan Today in Newspapers and Magazines / Cover Essay / Japanese Life as Seen in Photographs / Japanese Language-related Projects Implemented by the Japan Foundation / Teaching Materials Created or Subsidized by the Japan Foundation / Japanese Language Teaching Around the World / Overseas Japanese-Language Education Q & A / Useful Web Sites for Teachers / Nippon Report / Working in Japanese / Other / Miscellaneous News & From the Editors

Nihongokyoiku Tsushin Booklet

No.70-No.74 , No.64-No.69 , No.58-No.63 , No.52-No.57 , No.46-No.51 , No.40-No.45 , No.34-No.39 , No.28-No.33 , No.1-No.27

[Contact Us]

The Japan Foundation Language Institute, Urawa
Research and Development Section
5-6-36, Kita-Urawa, Urawa-ku, Saitama-city, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Tel: 048-834-1183 Fax: 048-831-7846
E-mail: tsushin＠jpf.go.jp
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