Start the New Year with a koto
| On the first school day of the year for 2011, GenkiJACS students and staff were treated to a performance to start the New Year. The Japanese stringed musical instrument…
Japanese study tools and websites
| Ask Metafilter has a great set of recommendations of Japanese learning tools and websites.It’ll take us a while to work through all of these, but we’re sure there are…
GenkiJACS Zentai Kaigi
| We had a meeting of GenkiJACS Japanese language school teachers last week, to mark the end of the year. Lovely to see everyone together! We went out for dinner…
Discount Airline comes to Japan!
| Exciting news last week, as the first true discount airline started flights to and from Japan! Air Asia, based in Malaysia, started flights between Haneda and Kuala Lumpur. They’re…
Tsugumi Sensei’s farewell
| As previously covered in the GenkiJACS blog, Tsugumi Sensei is going to the Dominican Republic for two years to teach Japanese as participate of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency).…
GenkiJACS 2010 Charity Donations
| Each year GenkiJACS gives at least 5% of profits to charity, usually to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. This year we were lucky enough to be able to…
Japanese teacher training course!
| In partnership with Kyushu Gaigo College, GenkiJACS will offer a Japanese teacher training course from January 2011! We’re very excited about this. Most teacher training courses focus on teaching…
The state of Japanese language study abroad
| Every three years, the wonderful Japan Foundation publishes the results of their survey of Japanese schools overseas (i.e. outside Japan). Their most recent survey was published in July this…
Health Care at GenkiJACS
| Genki Japanese School has always prided itself on being an ethical business – we donate a portion of our profits to charity each year, we aim to hire as…