Daily Archives: July 5, 2008

Why is English Important for Japan?

Living in Japan, teaching English and also using Japanese everyday, I sometimes wonder why learning English is important for Japanese people. Japanese is a rich and excellent language that is really all Japanese people need to go about their normal daily lives. Of course people have all kinds of personal reasons to learn [...]

The trigger

When I first started promoting my school at my two local stations, I began to worry that I’d all flyered out the area and that I’d reached all my potential students already. I needn’t have worried: for one thing my area has a very mobile population with many new residents and office workers moving in [...]