Links

Directory of the Overseas Japanese-Education Institutions (English/ Japanese)

http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/japan/oversea/index.html

The Japan Foundation headquarters website offers a worldwide online directory, which includes Japanese-language schools in Canada.

Online Japanese Language Test: Sushi Test (English/Japanese)

http://momo.jpf.go.jp/sushi/

Anyone, anytime, can have fun testing his or her Japanese language ability at their leisure and for free. (Learners taking the test will have to register as members at first.) This test is directed mainly at junior and senior high school learners of Japanese who still find Level 4 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test a little difficult.

Nihongo Promotion (English)

http://www.nihongopromotion.org

This website provides useful and practical information and links for promoting/improving Japanese language education programs in K-12 schools.

BJT Business Japanese Proficiency Test (English)

Please note that as of April 2009, the administrator of the BJT Business Japanese Proficiency Test has changed from JETRO to the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation.

http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/bjt

BJT Business Japanese Proficiency Test is designed to objectively measure and evaluate one's proficiency in using the Japanese language for communication involving a variety of situations and circumstances, targeting non-native speakers engaged primarily in business.

Japanese-Language Teaching Seminar for JETs (English)

http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/urawa/p_guide/jet/

The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa (Saitama Prefecture) is offering a training program for JETs interested in becoming Japanese-language teachers in the future. The key feature of the program is a workshop building on participants? experiences in Japan to develop new ways of teaching Japanese.