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Free materials help teaching foreign kids at primary school Midori Matsuzawa Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer The number of foreign children who needed special instruction on the Japanese language at public schools surpassed 20,000 according to September 2005 statistics, almost four times larger than the figure from 1991, when the Education, Science and Technology Ministry began conducting such survey..

Old manuscript pages offers insights into Japan's early English studies The Yomiuri Shimbun The owner of an antiquarian bookstore in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, recently discovered working manuscript pages for the nation's first English-Japanese dictionary, published in the closing days of the Edo period (1603-1867). It was the first discovery of any drafts of the reference book. Junichi Nagumo,..

Making English Work / From China to Japan, via English Yoko Mizui / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Learning good English pronunciation does not require native-speaking teachers, according to Yiping Cheng, 32, research manager of the Trade Marketing Group of the Online Service Group at Microsoft Co., in Tokyo. "In Shanghai's primary schools, English is treated equally with Chinese language and arithm..