Baby news!
| On February 10th, at 7:32 in the evening, our office staff Yuki Yamazaki gave birth to a healthy baby boy! Soushirou was 3,900 grams at birth, but now weighs…
GenkiJACS to open Japanese language school in Tokyo!
| Huge news! We will open a Tokyo branch of Genki Japanese Language School in June this year! Plans are still in progress, but it looks like the new school…
More poop toys
| Continuing our theme of poop-related posts, we present a ガシャポン (“gashapon”, small toy in a capsule sold in vending machines) from the local shopping center. Each machine usually sells a…
Travel health insurance through Genki Japanese School
| We’ve always required students to book travel health insurance to cover your stay while you study Japanese with us in Japan. In the past we just recommended a comparison…
apples to apples partII
| Here it is again. Our students at Genki Japanese Language School were playing “apples to apples”. It looked like a lot of fun. But question was, “Is it really?”.…
SUCH A SMALL WORLD!
| From July 3rd to 30th for 4 weeks in 2011, a student K-san from Germany came to study at Genki Japanese Language School. She came back to study with…
The Famous Foods of every prefecture in Japan!
| Great overview of the famous foods in each Japanese prefecture here. Don’t forget to eat mentaiko when you come to Fukuoka!
Setsubun
| “Setsubun” (bean-throwing festival) is the day that we throw beans saying “oniwa soto fukuwa uchi”(demons out, luck in). We did this cultural event at Genki Japanese language school on…
“Demons out! Luck in”
| On February 1st, we had a cultural class about Setsubun. Setsubun is the day before the beginning of Spring in Japan! In its association with the Lunar New Year,…