Setsubun 2014
| Setsubun is a special Japanese event marking the last day of winter. The event is celebrated by casting “demons” (ill luck, or bad happenings) out of the home, and…
Cherry blossoms 2014
| The first sakura (cherry blossom) forecasts for 2014 are in. 花見(はなみ – cherry blossom viewing) heralds the coming of warmer spring weather in Japan, and is such a big…
Fukuoka Welcome Campaign
| Fukuoka City is having a huge discount/special item campaign aimed at foreign tourists at the moment. Until the 9th of February, most of the majour shopping malls, restaurants and…
GenkiJACS staff caricatures
| We received this very special going-away present from one of our long-term students, Bjorn-san. Can you spot all the different GenkiJACS teachers and staff? (Here is a slightly bigger…
Internship in Japan Program at Genki Japanese School!
| From 2014, Genki Japanese School has partnered with the biggest internship provider for foreigners in Japan, to offer a combined study and internship program! After studying with GenkiJACS, you…
New website is live!
| Our new website is live! It’s a big change, but we’re pretty excited! We’ll be making a few more updates during the next while, as well as fixing a…
Japanese keyboard layout
| We often have students at our language school who find it difficult to use Japanese keyboards, so we’ve put together a basic guide showing all the most frequently used…
New Year Event for Genki Japanese students
| We always arrange a special event for our Japanese school students on the first day of the new year. On the first day of classes this year, we arranged…
Interesting Japanese – www
| If you exchange a lot of texts with Japanese people, you’ll have noticed they tend to use “www” a lot in their conversations. “w” is Japanese language text-speak for…