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  2. English-language education in Japan - Wikipedia

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    This text would later become influential in shaping the methods of teaching and learning English in Japan. Yokohama Academy, one of the first English schools, was founded in Japan by the Bakufu in 1865 where American missionaries such as James Curtis Hepburn taught there. By the year 1874, there were 91 foreign language schools in Japan, out of ...

  3. Nova (eikaiwa) - Wikipedia

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    Full-time instructor [45] Five day work week of eight 44-minute lessons per day. Duties may include cleaning or distributing tissues during free lessons. 200,000 yen monthly salary which may vary depending on class capacity. Teachers are paid more for full or one on one classes, less for one or two student classes. Transport allowance included ...

  4. Economy of Japan - Wikipedia

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    During the Meiji period (1868–1912), leaders inaugurated a new Western-based education system for all young people, sent thousands of students to Europe and the United States, and hired more than 3,000 Westerners to teach modern science, mathematics, technology, and foreign languages in Japan (Oyatoi gaikokujin). The government also built an ...

  5. Zuiikin' English - Wikipedia

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    Zuiikin' English (Japanese: 英会話体操 Zuiikin’ English, Hepburn: Eikaiwa taisō Zuiikin Ingurisshu) is a Japanese television series originally aired in 1992 by Fuji Television. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Eikaiwa , Taisō and Zuiikin mean "English conversation", "gymnastic exercises" and " voluntary muscles ", respectively.

  6. The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese That The Japanese Don't Know (Japanese: 日本人の知らない日本語, Hepburn: Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo) is a manga and television series about a Japanese teacher and her students written by Takayuki Tomita and Umino Nagiko. It discusses the background of Japanese words and speech.

  7. Education in Japan - Wikipedia

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    As Japanese students grow, their time to assert what they have learned in class to real life is cut dramatically, starting with the elevation from elementary to lower secondary school. [71] A large part of this has to do with cram schooling, or Juku , which can start as early as elementary and takes full effect toward the end of junior high ...

  8. Nihonjin gakkō - Wikipedia

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    By 1991 many overseas Japanese high schools were accepting students who were resident in Japan, and some wealthier families in Japan chose to send their children to Japanese schools abroad instead of Japanese schools in Japan. [12] While Japan was experiencing a major recession called the Lost Decade in the 1990s, so were nihonjin gakkō. Many ...

  9. ECC (eikaiwa) - Wikipedia

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    ECC Foreign Language Institute (ECC外語学院, -gaigo gakuin) is one of the major private English teaching companies or eikaiwa in Japan. [1] It is part of the ECC group. [2] ECC (Education through Communication for the Community) is based in the Kansai region of Japan and also has many branches in the Chūbu and Kantō regions.