Japanese Language School

Japanese Language School

Language is essential for effective communication with one another and it is a city to the building of which every human being brought stone. Any language has its own beauty and tradition, so does the Japanese Language which inherits similarities to our Indian Languages. The seeds of our Japanese Language School were sown in the year 1973 by our Founder Chairman, Mr. M. R. Ranganathan, who is also President of Nihon Technology Pvt. Ltd . His vast experience with the Japanese clients has helped this school to function in a novel way.

The students of our School are a heterogeneous group consisting of School & College Students, housewives, working people and a varying age group between 15-60 years. The Japanese Language is taught in Romaji version for Basic & Advanced Course of Spoken Japanese and in Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji for the Script Courses. The Classes are taken by more than 30+ dedicated, voluntary teachers (including native Japanese Teacher) who are working at top Management levels at major organizations.

The classes are being conducted on Sundays from Morning-Evening and on Special requests and if situation warrants Special Classes are conducted during week days. And for the benefit of Business Community Crash Course are being conducted at this School. This is useful especially for those who leave to Japan in a short time. All these exams are conducted by the Japan Foundation, Japan in coordination with the Consulate General of Japan at the respective regions. And from the year 2002 onwards our centre had been identified by the Consulate General of Japan, Chennai for coordinating in conducting the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) for the four southern states.

Teaching materials used in this School for Teaching Japanese Language consists of Course Materials (books), Picture Cards, A – cards, Language Practice Audio Cassettes, Audio Visual Methods etc.. Periodical tests are conducted in the lessons taught. Our school is affialited to the Japanese Language Promotion Centre (JAPROC), New Delhi and many of teachers are the members of Japanese Language Teachers Association of India (JALTAI).

Number of Students appearing JLPT Exam from South India

New Levels N 1 N 2 N 3 N 4 N 5 Total
2010 July 34 109 340 483
2010 December 32 107 143 301 1009 1592
2011 July 32 108 171 282 474 1067
2011 December 25 87 140 266 867 1385
2012 July 38 126 160 276 678 1278
2012 December 24 89 163 389 1130 1795
2013 July 24 147 248 488 813 1720
2013 December 20 89 145 359 1215 1828
2014 July 43 136 246 493 991 1909
2014 December 21 90 214 518 1410 2253
2015 July 34 88 221 523 1186 2952
2015 December 34 97 223 444 1043 1841
2016 July 32 108 233 531 1583 2487
2016 December 29 99 233 464 968 1793
2017 July 28 99 260 466 1441 2294
2017 December 22 104 241 447 1311 2125
2018 July 28 116 312 827 1858 3141
2018 December 34 127 488 642 1805 3096
2019 July 32 175 388 861 2012 3468
2019 December 29 139 416 683 1185 2452
2021 December 43 217 590 958 1694 3500
2022 July 60 188 459 1056 1468 3231
2022 December 59 175 350 773 1000 2357
2023 July 55 210 424 810 1506 3005
2023 December 61 229 409 643 1928 3270
2024 July 58 217 393 818 2333 3819
Total 931 3476 7610 14316 32908 59241

In order to cater to the growing needs of the students, NHK T. V. Programs (Japanese Language Program) have been telecasted through out the day through our own Satellite Dish Antenna. The Nihongo Gakko has Multi Facilitated Class Rooms, Audio Visual Rooms, Conference Rooms, Auditorium and a huge library housing around 5000 books ranging from management, Japanese language education, technical cultural ,tradition engineering etc. With more and more Japanese industries setting up their collaboration factories, Japanese technology and management flowing into India, our organization puts all efforts to create a resource Centre in Tamil Nadu, for the industries in Tamil Nadu for better assimilation of these techniques and technologies.

Today Indian Software Industry is looking at Japan as a potential partner and we are proud to inform that all the leading Indian Software Houses doing business with Japan have our school students working with them in various capacities as translator s software engineers and project leaders. Apart from the Language Courses being taught at our centre, we are also imparting Japanese Language to the employees of the industries & Institutions at their premises at a nominal fee. Many of the industrial houses / Institutions in and around Chennai have utilized our expertise and are being benefited.