| Stephen Earnhardt, a former student at Genki Japanese school, recently premiered his stage adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s ねじまき鳥クロニクル (Nejimaki Tori Kuronikuru, the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) to rave reviews at…

| A kind friend of the school recently left us a huge box of action figures, mostly of the ever-popular Kamen Rider series here in Japan. But what to do…

| This week sees Fukuoka ring in the third of the three signature festivals of the region: the Hojoya festival. It is the final Matsuri of the summer and generally…

| A big event planned for Sunday October 2nd – we’ve invited one of the authors of the Genki textbook series (no relation to our school) to visit GenkiJACS for…

| GenkiJACS students attended a quite unique event recently – an attempt to have 1000 people dance Michael Jackson’s Thriller at Bayside Place in Fukuoka! Bad weather meant numbers didn’t…

| We took GenkiJACS teachers and staff out to celebrate the end of the busy summer season last week. This time we arranged to attend something a little special –…

| Local study abroad organization IAC was kind enough to arrange a beach barbecue for GenkiJACS students last weekend, and the photos are up on their blog here. Students had…

| Former Genki Japanese school student Dylan Jacoby is currently cycling the length of Japan, from Kagoshima all the way to the north of Japan! He’s doing it to raise…

| On July 16th, at 2:29 in the afternoon, office staff and accommodation coordinator Mai Bright gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby girl! Madison Bright (Maddy) was 50 cm…