Study Travel Magazine – Star Awards 2014
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| GenkiJACS is extremely proud to have not only been nominated, but shortlisted for the very prestigious Study Travel Magazine Star Awards yet again this year!This marks the 6th year…
Waddling to success – Sunshine City’s penguin parade
| If you happen to be a penguin-loving Japanese language student who tends to get easily lost in Tokyo, you’re in luck! The Sunshine City Aquarium in Ikebukuro has come…
Typhoon season!
| We’ve had quite a few inquiries from students about the typhoon headed for Kyuushu – typhoon Neoguri, scheduled to hit Fukuoka on Wednesday or Thursday. At the moment, though…
The Start of Summer
| Summer has officially started, and with it the biggest influx of students to GenkiJACS ever! More than 65 new students start today, so the school is a hive of…
Japanese soccer terms
| The FIFA World Cup is upon us, and it’s the topic everyone is talking about. Whether you’re watching the match in a bar, catching the results on the news…
Fukuoka and Tokyo both ranked in world’s top 10 cities!
| Monocle Magazine have released their Quality of Life Survey 2014, and this time Fukuoka has moved into the top 10! Three cities in Japan are ranked in the top…
Do you know Hikakin?
| Hikakin is a famous Japanese beatboxer and video blogger who regularly uploads videos introducing interesting Japanese foods or products not often heard about overseas.Not only are his videos quite…
Photobooks of Japan
| Heli-san, who has studied at GenkiJACS 3 times in the past, came back to study Japanese language with us again this year, at both our Tokyo and Fukuoka branches.She…
Emoji and the art of ASCII
| You’ve probably heard of Japanese emoticons called 絵文字 (えもじ, “emoji”), right?This refers to the art of taking Western emoticons such as 🙂 or D: and expressing them horizontally, as…
Keeping cool
| As we head into summer, we’d like to remind everyone coming to study Japanese language with us from June onward that Japan gets hot. Very hot. It can be…