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| We’re back, after an extended hiatus! It’s been a busy couple of months for us, and we’re sorry for not having updated the blog during that time. Here’s your…
Thoughts from a Former Student
| Vladimir Rizikov, a student who studied with us last winter from Baruch College, City University of New York, wrote a very nice article about his experience for his college…
GenkiJACS’ first “goukon”
| Today’s topic is the “goukon” (or gokon, or gookon), a modern-traditional Japanese dating party. “Goukon” is short for “Gouryuu Konpa”. Gouryuu means to come together, or merge. Konpa is…
GenkiJACS is moving!
| It’s confirmed, we will be moving from our current location to a new, much larger, and far fancier school location during the first week of May. Directions to the…
Nagasaki trip
| We took a group of students down to Nagasaki this weekend. It’s just a 2-hour drive, so we made it a day trip, leaving at 9am and getting back…
Indoor snowboarding school trip!
| A couple of weeks ago, GenkiJACS made our inaugural trip to the conveniently located indoor snowboarding arena Big Air, part of the Bayside Place complex in Hakata Bay. A…
School refurbishing for earthquake damage
| As you might know, Fukuoka suffered a fairly major earthquake in March of last year, its first in a long long time (and hopefully its last!). They finally got…
Japanese Names
| One of the teachers at our school recently had a baby, prompting us to think about some of the unique aspects of choosing names for infants in Japan. This…
Fukuoka Olympics: follow-up
| As a quick addition to our previous item about the Fukuoka 2016 Olympics bid, I thought I should post this photo, which tickled our collective funny-bone here. This is…
Japanese compound verbs
| One of the most interesting and flexible elements of Japanese is how verbs can be combined to create new words. In English, it’s quite rare for two verbs to…