Tourists are seen in the Minami district of Osaka's Chuo Ward on June 27, 2025. The 31-year-old Vietnamese woman told a court hearing, "I handed a residency card to a Vietnamese man on a bridge where ...

This supplied photo shows notice of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test. (Screenshot from official website of JLPT/Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Applications for certain levels of the Japanese-Language ...

Applications for certain levels of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, widely used as a requirement for foreign nationals' employment or study in Japan, have closed ahead of schedule, the ...

It seems to mirror the criteria for testing of English in Japan. It always seems like ease of marking trumps anything else in testing in Japan. Hence the favouring of multiple-choice tests. It's ...

Proxy test-taking for Japan's language exams to obtain 'specified skilled worker' visa has become a business online. - THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ANN OSAKA: The Osaka prefectural police have uncovered a ...

Kazuo and Hiroko Omori are embarking on the final chapter of their decades-long mission to help foreigners learn and master Japanese. The husband and wife, both 84, have been doing it for 36 years, ...