Japanese-teaching guidelines drawn up for night junior high schools

OSAKA - Japan's education ministry recently devised guidelines tailored for nighttime junior high school Japanese language teachers in a first-time initiative to help them respond to the varying needs of students with diverse language backgrounds.

In fiscal 2025, a ministry survey of 62 publicly run schools across the country for people who could not finish compulsory education found that only about 30 percent of them had teachers dedicated to providing Japanese language lessons. The survey also found that teachers not specializing in Japanese language instruction were concerned about the quality of their lessons.