Next year, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo and other Japanese cities between July and September. Japanese people are looking fo…

As I have noted in the 132 edition of the CLAIR Sydney Newsletter released in February this year, the World Masters Games (WMG) 2021 Kansai will be held in Japan’s K…

As described in the CLAIR Sydney Newsletter No 130 Dec. 2018, the Japanese people know very well that the Rugby World Cup is a very special event for New Zealanders …

‘Welcome to our JET family!’ an alumna of the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme told the new JET Programme participants in her send-off speech. Her com…

Local internationalisation in Japan has been rapidly occurring in recent years. An example of this, as explained in the CLAIR Sydney Newsletter published in Ma…

For those who missed our newsletter last month, I mentioned that the number of non-Japanese residents in Japan is expected to rapidly and continuously increase …

Between 2013 and 2018, the number of non-Japanese residents in Japan has increased from 2.07 million to 2.73 million people, which equates to a 32% increase in th…

For those who missed our newsletter last month, many Japanese organisations, both public and private, set the end of March and the beginning of April as the time w…

As you may know, March means not only the end of the fiscal year, but also the end of the school year in Japan. Since many students who graduate schools or universiti…