Applications for certain levels of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, widely used as a requirement for foreign nationals ...

The requirement applies to jobs in which language skills are central, such as translation, interpretation and customer-facing ...

Tourists are seen in the Minami district of Osaka's Chuo Ward on June 27, 2025. The 31-year-old Vietnamese woman told a court hearing, "I handed a residency card to a Vietnamese man on a bridge where ...

Proxy test-taking for Japan's language exams to obtain 'specified skilled worker' visa has become a business online. - THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ANN OSAKA: The Osaka prefectural police have uncovered a ...

Kazuo and Hiroko Omori are embarking on the final chapter of their decades-long mission to help foreigners learn and master Japanese. The husband and wife, both 84, have been doing it for 36 years, ...

Visitors to Japan will no longer be permitted to take the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test in the country beginning this year. Japan Educational Exchanges and Services said that, as a general rule, ...

President Kurosawa Shinya expressed positive consideration for expanding the capacity and frequency of both the JLPT and ...

OSAKA – The Osaka prefectural police have uncovered a series of proxy test-taking cases in connection with Japanese language tests required for foreign workers to obtain the specified skilled worker ...