There were only 4 days between the Prime Minister’s declaration and the shutdown of schools in Japan. During which, Shinjuku Japanese Language Institute (SNG) transitioned to conducting all classes online. This entailed transitioning 34 physical classes to online platforms, training 60 teachers in digital teaching and notifying 650 students about the change. This smooth transition […]

SNG’s Summer Course is a summer stay in Japan that offers a wide range of cultural activities, tours and day trips. Throughout your stay, your days will be divided between Japanese classes in the morning and cultural activities in the afternoon. Anyone can join, regardless of their level of Japanese. Each activity offered by SNG […]

Every year, the National Association of Colleges for Japanese Education (NACJE or 全国専門学校日本語教育協会 in Japanese) organises a speech contest where students from the members schools can participate. This year, the contest took place on February 15th at Bunka-gakuen, in Tokyo, with 14 participants. Jim Lan, one of Shinjuku Japanese Language Institute’s students, participated and won […]

On July 9th, a Japanese speech contest “shabereon ’12” was held in Shinjuku Cultural Center. One of our students, Ms. Akiyo Suzuki (Advanced I / b class) participated in this contest together with14 students from other language schools, universities and graduate schools.Akiyo’s topic was “the beauty of the Japanese language”.   Her speech content and […]