Non-Japanese Residents' Self-Evaluation of their Japanese Language Ability in Regional Japanese Classrooms

Japanese Garden as a Physical Symbol of Japanese Culture

A’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. Garden and garden designing are suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. Thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in an ideal and unattainabl...

Japanese and Non-japanese Perceptions of Japanese Communication

Proper Name Machine Translation from Japanese to Japanese Sign Language

This paper describes machine translation of proper names from Japanese to Japanese Sign Language (JSL). “Proper name transliteration” is a kind of machine translation of proper names between spoken languages and involves character-tocharacter conversion based on pronunciation. However, transliteration methods cannot be applied to Japanese-JSL machine translation because proper names in JSL are ...

What the Japanese Language Tells Us about the Alleged Japanese Relational Self

The Japanese have frequently been characterized as ‘collectivistic’ and ‘group-oriented’. This common view is based on the group model of Japanese society, which claims that the Japanese self is relational, fluid, and assimilated into one’s in-group as a collective deictic center. Reviewing several major works that cover Japanese society and its language, the present article argues that the col...

English Acquisition and Japanese Language Maintenance among Japanese - American Youth