Conversation is the focus of our lessons in CANAAN Tokyo Japanese Language School. We will help you to develop solid Japanese language skills through conversation and support you to design the life of your own, enhance thinking skills as well as social skills.
CANAAN Group consists of a group of Japanese language schools founded in 2003. Our school is located at Koto-ku, Tokyo, where many foreign residents, approximately 30,000 in 2024, live and have been actively promoting the realization of a multicultural society.
In such an area, we at the CANAAN Group are constantly seeking to provide excellent Japanese language education service as well as cultivate all-around human abilities with a philosophy endeavoring to bring more life possibilities to our students through education activities.
What do you know about Japan? You might mention sushi, Fuji mountain, sakura, animation, etc., but there actually is a much deeper past of cultural exchanges between India and Japan.
Back to the 6th century when Buddhism was introduced to Japan from India, Japan for the first time became aware of India. Full-scale exchanges started from 1952 when diplomatic relations were established between the two sides. Today, Japan engages in economic cooperation with India stronger than any other countries in the world. You may have well heard about the metro and Shinkansen trains built with Japanese technology. With the unceasing economic cooperation and technical assistance, the bilateral bond will grow deeper and stronger in the future.
Learning Japanese means you have to remember all of the hiragana, katakana, and kanji, which is easy to imagine how difficult it is for foreign learners.
Currently, there are approximately 125 million native Japanese speakers, running high in the world language speaker rankings, showing that the influence of the Japanese language is rather strong globalwide.
What’s more, about 3.79 million people are studying Japanese in 141 countries and regions, of which approximately 36,000 learners are in India. (from the 2021 Japan Foundation “Overseas Japanese Language Education Institutions Survey”) The number of Japanese language learners in South Asia is increasing year by year, and it’s suggested the same increase will happen in India in the future.
The reason why to study Japanese, if put in the past, was often to study abroad in Japan or just for keeping a hobby, but now the most common motivation is for employment in the home country, seeking a job in the future or moving to Japan for more job opportunities.
Today, Japan is actively accepting foreign talent, and the number of foreigners living in Japan is experiencing yearly growth. As a result, the more Japanese speakers appear, the bigger influence of the Japanese language will be expected in the future. In other words, If you can speak Japanese, you will impress other people and embrace more opportunities as an advantage.
This test measures and certifies the Japanese language proficiency of non-native Japanese speakers.
Specifically speaking, it includes the “language knowledge” part that measures how much you know about Japanese kanji, vocabulary and grammar. It also includes the “reading comprehension” and “listening comprehension” parts which are comprehensively designed to see if you can use the basic knowledge to accomplish communication tasks. The test is divided into five levels, N5 (beginner) to N1 (advanced).
As many universities, graduate schools, and companies in Japan check the JLPT result for reference, it is a rather necessary test to manifest your Japanese language level, and advance to higher education or target company.
Today, as an aging society with a declining birthrate, Japan is actively seeking highly skilled overseas talents.
For example, more and more people from India are coming to Japan to work as engineers at local companies.
With your professional skills (engineering skills) and Japanese language ability, you will have a very promising future in Japan.
Japan’s technology transfer to India will continue in the future under the well-going bilateral economic agreement. In the meantime, foreign companies are also rapidly expanding into India due to the economic liberalization in India in the 1990s.
Currently, there are 1400 Japanese companies with 4901 bases in India, and the number is still increasing. (See the List of Japanese Companies in India 2023 provided by the Embassy of Japan in India)
In other words, an increasing number of Japanese companies are seen to enter India, and if you can demonstrate your Japanese language skills in job application, a new path will open up for you to start a career at a Japanese company.
Even If you become fluent in Japanese, if you do not understand the person (country and culture) you are talking with, It’s possible to be stuck halfway during communication. Getting to know the person in front of you starts with getting to know that country and culture.
For that reason, it is rather important to know and feel the real Japan and Japanese people by studying in Japan. Such an experience will help you to communicate with Japanese people smoothly
A national qualification is required to work as a Japanese language teacher in Japan. (Japanese language teachers are nationally certified since 2024.)
All teachers in the CANAAN Group are qualified and have well mastered teaching methods to stand in the classroom.
Also, we have a teacher training course at CANAAN Tokyo, which means that your Japanese teachers at CANAAN are highly experienced as they can provide teacher training courses to native Japanese.
Besides providing Japanese language knowledge, our faculty have also successfully sent international students to numerous universities, graduate schools, vocational schools, and workplaces. They will generously share what they know with you.
Also, we have our unique Japanese language curriculum at CANAAN that emphasizes “conversation” in class.
To help you enter higher education or get employed is not our only goal. We put more effort into cultivating thinking skills, social skills as well as Japanese language ability that will allow you to play an active role the moment you enter the next stage.
Lastly, we have our Indian staff who will provide course information, language support, career and job consultations outside class to make sure you can study without worries.
We provide online Japanese courses from Japan to your local higher education institutions
and Japanese language training centers.
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We provide a comfortable learning environment by limiting the number of students, and ensure high standard courses taught by qualified teachers.
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Each course lasts four months long, and you can step up by continuing study.
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You can choose courses according to your personal needs.
Please confirm course details by participating in a workshop held on-site or online, or by using the materials provided by our school.
Please fill in the necessary information in the application form and submit it.
*More information will be provided separately.
Make payment at least 2 weeks before the course starts. As soon as payment is confirmed, we will process your enrollment.
Course begins.
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Applicable to all courses
If you are from overseas higher education institutions, for any inquiries please use the following contact.
Kinoshita Company Limited
CANAAN Tokyo Japanese Language School
Indian Business Manager
Email: canaanindia@canaantokyo.com