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| 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…
GenkiJACS Tokyo – 1 year anniversary
| On Friday, GenkiJACS Tokyo celebrated their 1 year anniversary. We’re very proud of how much our Tokyo school has grown in the last year, and are vry excited to…
Fully booked for July
| Summer holidays are just around the corner, and we are excited to announce that GenkiJACS Tokyo and Fukuoka are fully booked up for the month of July! We are…
Hand towels
| Today, we’d like to introduce you to the Japanese custom of hand towels. A hand towel is a small (usually about the size of a face cloth) towel you…
Interesting Japanese: 午後夢中
| Everyone knows the feeling: you’ve just had lunch, and you’re trying to get back into work/studying but you’re just…so…tired… Trust Japanese to have a word for that! That word…