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.
Japanese Language School
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 |
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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.