• Academic Japanese
• Hybrid Lesson
• Certificate of Completion

This is a course that students can learn at their own pace using on-demand learning materials. Although self-study by the student is the main part of the course, TUFS will provide the support necessary to ensure the acquisition of Japanese, such as assignments, feedback on them, and once-a-month live lessons.
*Applications for this year are closed. Next year's program opens in spring 2025

• Natural Japanese
• Tools and Apps

This app supports Japanese shadowing practice. You can listen to both your own speech and the model's speech. Waveforms and pitch accents are displayed, allowing you to visually compare pronunciation with ease. An instruction manual is also provided. The app is available worldwide on the App Store and on Google Play.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese

The "TUFS Language Modules" are the multilingual web-based educational materials made by the 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics" based at the Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese

The videos gives lesson for asking directions and prices, shopping at various types stores such as convenience store, electrical appliances shop, pharmacy, ordering food and payment at a restaurant, extending invitation to do various activities. Also socio-cultural issues are explained in one-point advice section.

• Academic Japanese
• Business Japanese
• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Tools and Apps
• For Japanese Language Teachers

This is a training system focused on Japanese oral production, featuring a variety of practice methods.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

You can practice not just kanji and grammar, but also conversations while watching videos following "MARUGOTO: Japanese Language and Culture", the official coursebook of the Japan Foundation, which complies to the JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education. In Life and Culture corner, you can see the lifestyles of Japanese people and people around the world through videos. You can check words and phrases on MARUGOTO-NO-KOTOBA. The contents can also be enjoyed by people studying Japanese for the first time as well as people using other textbooks.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

"Irodori: Japanese for Life in Japan" is a Japanese coursebook which is designed for people living and working in Japan. It aims to help overseas learners acquire the Japanese language skills needed for everyday life and work in Japan. PDF and audio files are available for free download from the "Irodori" website. Also, it is available in 20 languages.

• Academic Japanese
• Business Japanese
• On-Demand
• Natural Japanese
• Tools and Apps
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

This is a collection of videos showing situations that international students encounter in their life at Japanese universities and need to communicate in Japanese. Each scene uses natural, unscripted Japanese.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

Time-tested conversion lessons. People from around the world have been relying on Easy Japanese for more than 60 years. You can learn the basics of the language in 48 lessons. The latest series is available online, putting conversation skits, drills, and pronunciation practice at your fingertips. Insights into Japanese culture too, all in 20 languages, including English.

• Business Japanese
• Live Lesson
• Exam Preparation
• Job Hunting Preparation
• Business Culture and Manners
• Certificate of Completion

In this course, we aim to pass the BJT Japanese Language Proficiency Test at the J2 level. Through problem-solving exercises, participants will acquire the socio-cultural knowledge necessary for working in Japanese society and enhance their comprehensive business Japanese language skills.  *This course is scheduled to be held in February and from August to September each year.

• Academic Japanese
• Live Lesson
• Certificate of Completion

This short-term intensive online program is offered during overseas universities' summer vacation (June-August). Veteran Japanese language instructors offer small-group classes for undergraduate and graduate students studying Japanese overseas.

• Academic Japanese
• On-Demand
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• Certificate of Completion

The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) Open Academy is now offering Online Japanese Language Courses. There are Japanese language courses offering 11 different levels, and culture courses for more advanced Japanese learners. All courses are taught interactively through real time online classes, and can be taken from any places in the world where stable internet connection and media used in the classes are available.
*Applications for this year are closed. Next year's program opens in spring 2025

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• Business Culture and Manners
• For Japanese Language Teachers

"Hikidasu Nihongo" supports Japanese language learners to communicate independently in Japanese as well as to learn about culture and social life through various segments. Website "Hikidasu Nihongo Content-Library" provides on-demand videos of the program as well as subtitles, commentary, scripts, and many other contents useful for teaching and learning.

• Academic Japanese
• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers
• Extensive Reading

We provide contents for extensive reading that are interesting to adult learners. Through extensive reading, students can naturally develop the Japanese skills needed for academic situations.

• Live Lesson
• On-Demand
• Hybrid Lesson
• Daily Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers
• Certificate of Completion

JF Japanese e-Learning Minato is a Japanese language learning platform provided by the Japan Foundation. Minato means "port". Here at Minato, a place to learn and meet other like-minded people, we invite you to expand your understanding and knowledge of Japan, Japanese people, and the Japanese language. On Minato, you can learn Japanese with all sorts of online courses, sites and apps.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs

This site helps you learn different variations of Japanese through anime and manga characters and genres. You can also learn Japanese that you won't usually find in textbooks or dictionaries.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

These lecture videos aim to enhance the understanding of the Japanese Language in various aspects for Japanese Language beginners. 

• On-Demand
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers
• Certificate of Completion

In this course, we will move away from Japanese language textbooks and investigate how the language is used in modern-day Japanese society by looking at various themes.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese

In this course, you will study Japanese conversation. We have 14 conversation scenes in Japanese, so you will learn by thinking about what kind of speech you should make in each scene. There are two types of conversation : an anime version and a live-action.

• Business Japanese
• Live Lesson
• Exam Preparation
• Job Hunting Preparation
• Business Culture and Manners
• For Japanese Language Teachers

In this course, you will learn about the Japanese language, cultural knowledge, manners, skills, etc. that are required in business situations. *This course is scheduled to be held in February and from August to September each year.

• Daily Japanese
• Tools and Apps

TOBIRA—APU's first official app developed under the supervision of faculty from the Center for Language Education. It is compatible with iPhone/iPod touch, Android smartphones, and more, making it accessible to everyone. With this one app, you can practice writing hiragana and study numbers, time, and money expressions. You can also learn useful and simple Japanese dialogues for different situations.

• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Tools and Apps
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

This is a Japanese language learning app for beginners in secondary education. It has a "Study Section" where you can enjoyably learn vocabulary and expressions through card games, manga, and quizzes, and a "Test Section" where you can check how much you have remembered. In addition to the English language version, an Indonesian language version is also available.

• Academic Japanese
• On-Demand
• Japanese Culture and Affairs

If you take the course with Japanese language learning materials, you will be able to study effectively and efficiently. There will be 5 video lectures, about 30 minutes each.【Lesson 1】A demographic portrayal of post-war Japan 【Lesson 2】Economic growth and social transformation 【Lesson 3】The Japanese workplace 【Lesson 4】Gender relations in transition? 【Lesson 5】Why go to college? Higher education in Japan

• Business Japanese
• Live Lesson
• Exam Preparation
• Job Hunting Preparation
• Business Culture and Manners

Through this course, we aim to help you concentrate on strengthening the language skills necessary for you and acquire a higher level of business Japanese. *This course is scheduled to be held in February and from August to September each year.

• Academic Japanese
• Live Lesson
• Certificate of Completion

The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) Open Academy is now offering Online Japanese Language Courses. There are Japanese language courses offering 12 different levels, and culture courses for more advanced Japanese learners. All courses are taught interactively through real time online classes, and can be taken from any places in the world where stable internet connection and media used in the classes are available.
*Applications for this year are closed. Next year's program opens in spring 2025

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs

The videos gives lesson for asking directions and prices, shopping at various types stores such as convenience store, electrical appliances shop, pharmacy, ordering food and payment at a restaurant, extending invitation to do various activities. Also socio-cultural issues are explained in one-point advice section.

• Academic Japanese
• Business Japanese
• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Tools and Apps
• For Japanese Language Teachers

This web content supports the acquisition of natural Japanese prosody by allowing you to "listening, watching, and imitating" model speech.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Tools and Apps

"NIHONGO Avenue" is a content to learn speech and conversation examples organized by "speaker," "location," "situation," and "function" information.

• Academic Japanese
• Live Lesson
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• Certificate of Completion

The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) Open Academy is now offering Online Japanese Language Courses. There are Japanese language courses offering 8 different levels, and culture courses for more advanced Japanese learners. All courses are taught interactively through real time online classes, and can be taken from any places in the world where stable internet connection and media used in the classes are available.
*Applications for this year are closed. Next year's program opens in spring 2025

• On-Demand
• For Japanese Language Teachers
• Complete Japanese Learning Portal

Like a rainbow, "Nijiiro" aims to be a bridge between different regions and Japan, offering a wide range of Japanese language content and courses that can be studied online, as well as information on Kindle versions of Japanese textbooks. It also provides information on support offices of Japanese universities around the world for those who wish to study in Japan. "Nijiiro" is offered from March 2022 as a project of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies under the "Japan Forum for Internationalization of Universities."

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

This is a free Japanese learning site where you can enjoy learning with Erin, a high school student studying in Japan. Using a variety of content such as drama-style skits and manga, you can learn Japanese expressions, increase what you can do in Japanese, and learn about Japanese culture. Additionally, teachers can download materials useful for lesson preparation.

• Academic Japanese
• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Tools and Apps
• Check Language Proficiency Level

Samidori is especially suited to users who cannot attend Japanese language classes due to location or time constraints. No registration necessary. You can start learning now, ID/password are not required.

• On-Demand
• Daily Japanese
• Natural Japanese
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• For Japanese Language Teachers

Through this site, the learner can engage with a wider range of Japan and the Japanese language by reading articles and watching videos centering on 12 topics of their interest as themes, such as Music, Sweets, Temples and Shrines, and others. You can personally experience understanding and using Japanese with an A1, A2 level of proficiency.

• Business Japanese
• On-Demand
• Job Hunting Preparation
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• Business Culture and Manners
• For Japanese Language Teachers

Yokohama National University, in collaboration with Yokohama City University, carried out the "Yokohama-Kanagawa International Student Career Development Program", a project commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, over a period of five years (2017-2021). As part of the program, video materials were developed to assist international students in their job-hunting activities in Japan.

• Academic Japanese
• On-Demand
• Japanese Culture and Affairs

【Lecture1】Renewing the Poetic World of the Classics in Traditional Waka Poetry 【Lecture2】Images of Singapore in Japanese Paintings 【Lecture3】伊勢物語 “The Tales of ISE” 【Lecture4】野ざらし紀行 “Skull Travelogue” 【Lecture5】Text and Image in Modern Japan 【Lecture6】From Pierre Loti’s “A Ball in Edo”(1889) to Akutagawa

• Academic Japanese
• On-Demand
• Tools and Apps
• For Japanese Language Teachers
• Create Teaching Materials

This content is designed for Japanese language teachers. You can visualize text data with charts that show word frequency and vocabulary/expression levels. You can also effortlessly create and generate fill-in-the-blank and descriptive questions online.

• Tools and Apps

The app consists of three sections: 'Introduction,' 'Practice,' and 'Test.' With audio features, speech recognition, and handwriting recognition, you can practice Hiragana and Katakana in various ways. An instruction manual and instructional video clips are also provided. The app is available worldwide on the App Store and on Google Play.

• Academic Japanese
• Live Lesson
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• Certificate of Completion

The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) Open Academy is now offering Online Japanese Language Courses. There are Japanese language courses offering 9 different levels, and culture courses for more advanced Japanese learners. All courses are taught interactively through real time online classes, and can be taken from any places in the world where stable internet connection and media used in the classes are available.
*Applications for this year are closed. Next year's program opens in spring 2025

• Business Japanese
• On-Demand
• Job Hunting Preparation
• Tools and Apps
• Japanese Culture and Affairs
• Business Culture and Manners

This is a Japanese language learning site to support job hunting for international students who are aiming to find a job in Japan as new graduates.