At the end of last year, news emerged that Japan, struggling with a continuous labor shortage, is considering a plan to eliminate the residency period for foreigners with specific skills. As a result, ...

Takeshi at Saigon kara kita tsuma [サイゴンから来た妻] writes about his Vietnamese wife who took the Japanese Language Proficiency Test [en] [日本語能力試験, nihongo nōryoku shiken] today, as do thousands of other ...

Each year, the Center for Asian Studies manages the administration of the JLPT on the CU Boulder campus. The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) was developed in Japan, and has been offered ...

The NihongoUp Blog gives an in-depth explanation of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) – “It is a Japanese language test for non-native speakers, held twice a year in East Asia and once a ...