No more Western Union!
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| We received a letter recently informing us that the only official Western Union agent in Japan, Suruga Bank, is ceasing to handle Western Union money transfers. This means that…
More strange Japanese customs
| At long last, a follow-up to our year-old post on strange Japanese customs. To recap, we put a blank sheet of paper on the wall and asked students to…
Fukuoka world’s best shopping city, one of the most liveable!
| The Japan Times reports that London magazine Monocle named Fukuoka as the best city in the world for shopping! Reasons include the compactness of the central shopping district, the…
GenkiJACS receives Customer Satisfaction Excellence Award
| The busy summer season means that this blog doesn’t get updated nearly as often as we would like, but much has changed in the last month or so that…
New website chat feature!
| If you visit our main site, you may notice a little black bar in the bottom-left-hand corner. This is a chat box, and if it says “Click to talk…
Link with online Japanese school J-OS
| In our never-ending quest to improve our students’ Japanese, we’ve linked up with Japan Online School (J-OS), a Japanese school offering webcam lessons over the Internet, to offer a…
Student Essay: Myself as Other and the Beauty of Internationalism
| A former student of Genki Japanese Language School wrote the following report after her stay in Japan. Her reflections on her time here may be useful for others thinking…
Wedding congratulations!
| A very belated congratulations to former student Peter Gee, who was married to his Japanese fiancee in Fukuoka in December! He gave us permission to post his lovely message…
GenkiJACS Facebook Face-Off!
| Today we find that students have created not one but TWO competing GenkiJACS Facebook groups! Booya! What other language school can say that, eh? (Oh, right, Yamasa has three…)…
Summer bookings
| Like all Japanese language schools, summer is our busiest period. Courses are filling up quickly for summer this year – much quicker than last year! – so we recommend…