BUSINESS International Student Employment Promotion Program implemented by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology JAPANESE (MEXT)

In this course, you will learn about Japanese language, Spring cultural knowledge, man- Toyo university 2021 ners, skills, etc. that are required in business situa- Business Japanese Special Course tions. Learn Business Japanese and skills from experts in various fields

This is a valuable opportunity to learn from experts in each field about carefully selected topics. It also includes exam Overview preparation for the "BJT Business Japanese Proficien- cy Test" (Japan Kanji Apti- P e r i o d From February 1st（Monday) to February 10th(Wednesday) tude Testing Foundation), which will be a great help in F o r m a t Online, organized over Webex job hunting for international students. If you plan to take T a r g e t International students or employees who have the BJT exam, this course will passed JLPT N2 or above. be of great use to you. * Non Toyo University student can also take this course. * Participation from abroad is highly welcomed.

Capacity 1,000 participants per lecture (first-come-first-served basis) You can freely choose a lecture you are interested in F e e Fre e from all 20 lectures. Do not miss this opportunity to Applicatio n From January 8th (Friday) to January 27th (Wednesday) Perio d deepen your understanding of business Japanese and Applicatio n Please register your e-mail address culture and use it for your below. The registration page will be future career development. sent to the email address you have registered. （https://www.tugs.co.jp/businessjapan ese_temporary/）

・All courses will be conducted in Japanese only. ・No show without notice may lead to ban on further participation. Toyo University ・You can freely choose if you wish attend to one or multiple lectures. ・1From January 8th (Friday) to January 27th (Wednesday) Career Development Office

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Ms. Yamada is currently a director at The Japan Kanji Aptitude Toyo University, his current position is Associate Professor at Testing Foundation（Kanken）. In 2001, She joined Mitsubishi Toyo University. Doctor Tanaka has also been a part-time Electric Corporation and was in charge of purchasing electrical lecturer at the University of , Tokyo University of Foreign machinery parts for elevators at Inazawa Works. In 2004, she Studies,, etc. He specializes in business moved to Recruit Career Co., Ltd. Beside coordinating Japanese language education, analysis of Japanese language recruitment and providing career advice, she has been engaged teaching materials, development of Japanese language in management and training of company mid-career teaching materials, history of Japanese language education, employees since 2013. She has been holding seminars on and history of language policy. He received the 32nd Masayoshi human resource development for schools and companies, Ohira Memorial Special Award, the 2017 Waseda University focused on the improvement of Japanese communication Teaching Award -President's Award, 2018 the Society for skills. Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Encouragement Noriko YAMADA Yusuke TANAKA Award, 2019 Hakuhodo Education Foundation Research Grant The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation Toyo University Center for Global Education Excellence Award, and the 2020 Kids Design Council Chairman's (Head of Division) and Exchange (Associate Professor) Award.

Mr. Sugano graduated from , faculty of Business Graduate of the Japanese Language Program at the College of Administration in 1987. He has constantly been engaged in the Foreign Languages of the Ocean University of China. human resource business, including training of new graduates, Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of mid-career recruits, and staff in temporary employment. In Humanities, Kobe University.Assistant at the University of 2006, his team opened several job websites for doctors, Hamburg (Germany) and Kobe University. Part-time and pharmacists and women, starting with "Nikkei Career Net", full-time Lecturer at Kobe Design University and Japan operated by Nikkei Inc. Since 2013, with the help of of Economics. Currently a Lecturer at Toyo University. Keizai Shimbun, Inc., he has held the "NIKKEI ASIAN RECRUITING Doctor Chen's research covers modern Japanese grammar, FORUM IN TOKYO", which connects students who are studying Japanese language education, Japanese linguistics, as well as at major universities in Asian countries with global companies corpus linguistics. Takes special interest in sentence-final in Japan. So far, more than 200 foreign university students have markers and Chinese-related lexicon in modern Japanese. Yoshiyuki SUGANO Xiuyin CHEN found jobs in Japan. He also lectures on employment support Building on her theoretical knowledge of Japanese grammar Nikkei HR, Co. for Japanese and foreign students. Toyo University Center for Global Education and vocabulary, as well as her own liearning experience, the (Executive Officer and Head of Sales Division) and Exchange (Lecturer) lecturer will offer hints how to improve your Japanese skills.

Assoc. Prof. Ushikubo graduated from . He Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, . learned Japanese language education in the doctoral program Completed the doctoral program at Graduate at Waseda university and got a PhD (Japanese Language School and holds a Ph.D in Letters. After working at the Education). He worked as a deputy chief instructor at an International Student Center of University of Tokyo, Professor overseas educational institution (Waseda Education Thailand). Maeda has been an associate professor at Gakusyuin University After returning to Japan, he kept pursuing a career in language since April 2002 and a professor since April 2008. In the fields of education, working as a research assistant at Waseda University Japanese language research and Japanese language education and a lecturer at the Kwansei Gakuin University. He is currently research, she has many important treatises, books, and teaching Japanese at the Center for International Education and teaching materials. In addition, she has written a book: exchange, Toyo University. His specialty is qualitative data "Development and Issues of Business Japanese Language analysis, teacher research, and classroom research. Education" (Coco Publishing). Important proposals are being Ryuta USHIKUBO Naoko MAEDA sent out in this field as well. Toyo University Center for Global Education (Professor) and Exchange (Associate Professor)

Ms. Toyama teaches business etiquette to learners of all ages in The lecturer has been contributing to the Japanese language response to requests for training and lectures at companies and education of researchers, working on Japan, dimplomats, organizations throughout Japan. She is a certified mental health foreign students and business-people since as early as the counselor by the Mental Health Association of Japan, an ICC mid-seventies. She founded Communica Institute in 1988 in the (International Coaching Federation) certified international city of Kobe. The institution teaches Japanese to students, coach, a practitioner of Santa Fe NLP/Developmental business-people and foreign residents from more than 35 Psychology Association, a BCB certified facilitator, and the first coutries. It also offers intercultural communication related bridal master of BIA (Japan Bridal Culture Promotion instruction to Japanese teachers, managers and employees. Association). She also teaches at Toyo University and Sony Councilor at the Assossiation for the Promotion of Japanese Gakuen Shohoku Junior College while working as Executive Education, Member of the Board of the The Society for Teaching Shoko TOYAMA Director of M.C.I.S. Inc. Junko OKUDA Japanese as a Foreign Language, Representative Director of the Society for Business Japanese Research, Member of the Board of MCS Ltd. (CEO) Communica Institute (Principal) the Japanese Language Education Support Association, etc.

Upon graduation from the English Department of the Facutly of Arts and Letters at , worked for the Tokyo Holds a MA in Applied Japanese Linguistics from Tohoku Branch of Deutsche Bank and a Japanese company operating in University and a Ph.D. in Japanese Linguistics from Basra (Iraq), before taking up Japanese language education. Master Bulgaria's leading Sofia University. His research covers of Arts. Professor at Musashino University and consecutive Head of phonetics and phonology with an accent on prosody, the Postgraduate Department of Language and Culture and the Department of Japanese Language Communication. Chairperson of pragrmatics and honorifics in particular, as well as the Japanese OPI Study Group, Secretary of the Academic Japanese intercutlural communication, including foreign learners' Group, Representative Director of the Society for Business Japanese attitude toward Japan and its culture. Long-time translator Research, Member of the "Research Committee for the Promotion of and interpreter, experienced in literary, business and Employment of Foreign Students by Japanese Companies" and the political contexts. (Translator of Kenzaburo Oe's "Death by "Committee for the Development of a Common Curriculum for Staff Water"), Taught for many years at Sofia University Keiko HORII from Asian Countries" under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and ANDREEV,Anton Industry, and in charge of the Japanse language course for the (Associate Professor). Currently a Lecturer at Toyo Musashino University "Foreigners Living in Japan" Program under the Agency for Cultural Toyo University Center for Global Education University. (Honorary Professor) Affairs. One of the pioneers of both research and teaching of and Exchange (Lecturer) Business Japanese, who has been actively promoting its newest theories and practice both in Japan and abroad. Details

Schedule no. Lectures Overview

Understanding communication style of Japanese language is essential for learning business Japanese. In this 01 Efficient Japanese Communication lecture, we will focus on communicative competense which is required to work in Japanese company, and learn You can choose between 20 free lectures, delivered by distinguished experts in the respective fields. the basic knowledge on how to write logically in C1:G3Japanese.

Communicative approaches have been a point of discussion since the 1980s and are still very important today, -FDUVSFTBEESFTTFJUIFS Business Japanese and the Communicative Approach especially in business situations. In this lecture, we will consider business Japanese in reference to the communi- -FDUVSFTPO /P 5JNF +45 5PQJDT ˘5IFPSZ˙PS˘1SBDUJDF˙ -FDUVSFT -FDUVSFS*OTUJUVUJPO 02 cative approach and explain effective learning methods.

1 13:00 - 14:30 /PSJLP:"."%" 5IFPSZ &DJFOU+BQBOFTF$PNNVOJDBUJPO 5IF+BQBO,BOKJ"QUJUVEF5FTUJOH'PVOEBUJPO Business Japanese is not only a matter of language. It is also a matter of how you create your own future career  )FBEPG%JWJTJPO Mon. Feb 1 03 Finding a Job and Building a Career in Japan using Japanese. In this lecture, we will talk about career planning for international students based on the current $PNNVOJDBUJPO status of job hunting in Japan. 2 :VTVLF5"/"," 14::40 - 16:10 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO 1SBDUJDF #VTJOFTT+BQBOFTFBOEUIF$PNNVOJDBUJWF"QQSPBDI BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS The BJT test is for measuring business communication skills. In this lecture, you will learn the features and 3 13:00 - 14:30 :PTIJZVLJ46("/0 04 questioning tendency of the BJT test and how to prepare for it. 5IFPSZ 'JOEJOHB+PCBOE#VJMEJOHB$BSFFSJO+BQBO /JLLFJ)3 $P &YFDVUJWF0DFSBOE What is BJT and How to Prepare for It Tue. Feb 2 )FBEPG4BMFT%JWJTJPO $BSFFS 4 14::40 - 16:10 :VTVLF5"/"," 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO Being able to use Japanese in business situations means not only having linguistic knowledge, but also being 1SBDUJDF 8IBUJT#+5BOE)PXUP1SFQBSFGPS*U BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS 05 Better Communication Skills through Grammar Acquisition able to communicate. In this lecture, we will consider the communication skills that learners should acquire from the perspective of Japanese grammar. 5 13:00 - 14:30 9JVZJO$)&/ 5IFPSZ #FUUFS$PNNVOJDBUJPO4LJMMTUISPVHI(SBNNBS"DRVJTJUJPO 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO Wed. Feb 3 BOE&YDIBOHF -FDUVSFS (SBNNBS In this lecture, you will be asked to solve actual BJT test tasks, to deepen your understanding of grammar 6 14::40 - 16:10 3ZVUB64)*,6#0 A Practical Exercise in Business Japanese Grammar expressions used in actual business situations. Please prepare notes. 1SBDUJDF "1SBDUJDBM&YFSDJTFJO#VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF(SBNNBS 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO 06 BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS

7 13:00 - 14:30 9JVZJO$)&/ %JDVMUJFTJO7PDBCVMBSZ"DRVJTJUJPO 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO 5IFPSZ BOE&YDIBOHF -FDUVSFS Japanese is said to have a large vocabulary compared to other languages. In this lecture, you will learn the Thu. Feb 4 BOE)PXUP0WFSDPNF5IFN Difficulties in Vocabulary Acquisition and How to Overcome Them 7PDBCVMBSZ 07 difficulties in vocabulary acquisition and how to overcome them. 8 14::40 - 16:10 :VTVLF5"/"," 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO 1SBDUJDF "1SBDUJDBM&YFSDJTFJO#VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF7PDBCVMBSZ BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS Building upon "Difficulties in Vocabulary Acquisition and How to Overcome Them" the lecture offers an even 9 13:00 - 14:30 /BPLP."&%" 08 A Practical Exercise in Business Japanese Vocabulary deeper undederstanding through solving and analysis of actual BJT test tasks. 5IFPSZ )POPSJDTJO#VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF (BLVTIVJO6OJWFSTJUZ 1SPGFTTPS Fri. Feb 5 &YQSFTTJPOT 10 14::40 - 16:10 9JVZJO$)&/ 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO 1SBDUJDF "1SBDUJDBM&YFSDJTFJO#VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF&YQSFTTJPOT BOE&YDIBOHF -FDUVSFS There are lots of people who associate business Japanese with Honorifics (Keigo) and find it difficult to use. In 09 Honorifics in Business Japanese this lecture, we will explain core concept of Keigo and leant how it is described by linguists. 11 13:00 - 14:30 4IPLP50:"." 5IFPSZ +BQBOFTF#VTJOFTT&UJRVFUUF .$4-UE $&0 Sat. Feb 6 $VMUVSF In this lecture, you will be asked to solve actual BJT test tasks, to deepen your understanding of honorific 12 14::40 - 16:10 :VTVLF5"/"," 10 A Practical Exercise in Business Japanese Expressions 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO expressions used in actual business situations. Please take notes. 1SBDUJDF "1SBDUJDBM&YFSDJTFJO+BQBOFTF#VTJOFTT$VMUVSF BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS

13 13:00 - 14:30 +VOLP0,6%" 5IFPSZ #VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF8SJUJOH4LJMMT $PNNVOJDB*OTUJUVUF 1SJODJQBM Every particualar business situation calls for a specific set of manners, but how can you tell what it is? This is Sun. Feb 7 11 Japanese Business Etiquette exactly what you are going to learn from an expert in the field. 8SJUJOH 14 14::40 - 16:10 "1SBDUJDBM&YFSDJTFJO+BQBOFTF#VTJOFTT8SJUJOH 3ZVUB64)*,6#0 1SBDUJDF 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO GPS)JHIMZ"EWBODFE-FBSOFST BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS Understanding business culture and customs is essential for learning business Japanese. In this lecture, we will 15 13:00 - 14:30 ,FJLP)03** 12 A Practical Exercise in Japanese Business Culture introduce the theoretical framework of cultural understanding, and provide explanations and training to acquire 5IFPSZ #VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF-JTUFOJOH$PNQSFIFOTJPO .VTBTIJOP6OJWFSTJUZ )POPSBSZ1SPGFTTPS cultural knowledge. Mon. Feb. 8 -JTUFOJOH 16 14::40 - 16:10 $PNQSFIFOTJPO 9JVZJO$)&/ 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO How to produce a text, relevent to a specific business purpose? You will learn about the basics of Japanese 1SBDUJDF "1SBDUJDBM&YFSDJTFJO#+5-JTUFOJOH5BTLT BOE&YDIBOHF -FDUVSFS 13 Business Japanese Writing Skills business writing and hear some hints how to improve your skills. 17 13:00 - 14:30 3ZVUB64)*,6#0 #VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF3FBEJOH$PNQSFIFOTJPO 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO 5IFPSZ BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS Tue. Feb 9 3FBEJOH A Practical Exercise in Japanese Business Writing In this lecture, you will actually be asked to write actual texts, so that you can deepen your understanding of 18 14::40 - 16:10 $PNQSFIFOTJPO :VTVLF5"/"," 14 writing activities used in actual business situations. Please make sure you are using a device, you can comfortably 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO for Highly Advanced Learners use for writing. 1SBDUJDF "1SBDUJDBM&YFSDJTFJO#+53FBEJOH5BTLT BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS

19 13:00 - 14:30 "OUPO"/%3&&7 No matter what your job is, undesrtdanding what people are saying is an absulute must. The lecture is an 5IFPSZ 5SBOTMBUJPO *OUFSQSFUJOHBOE#VTJOFTT+BQBOFTF 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO BOE&YDIBOHF -FDUVSFS 15 Business Japanese Listening Comprehension opportunity to learn more about listening comprehension in Japanese business situations and improve your Wed. Feb 10 1 1 . skills +٬ + 20 14::40 - 16:10 :VTVLF5"/"," 5PZP6OJWFSTJUZ$FOUFSGPS(MPCBM&EVDBUJPO 1SBDUJDF (FOFSBM#+5"EWJDF1SFQBSBUJPO3FTPVSDFTBOE5PPMT BOE&YDIBOHF "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS In this lecture, you will listen to audio and complete the BJT test tasks, in order to improve your listening skills in ※Please note that some classes are the same as the 2020 Summer Business Japanese Point Course, so please be careful when applying. 16 A Practical Exercise in BJT Listening Tasks actual business situations. Please make sure you have a stable connection.

【Application】 What is the difference between understanding business documents in Japanese and academic papers? In this 17 Business Japanese Reading Comprehension lecture, we will classify the types of business documents used in a business setting and learn how to make sense of the information they contain. Please register your e-mail address below. The registration page will be sent to the email address you have registered. Building upon "Business Japanese Reading Comprehension", you will deepen your understanding of reading 18 A Practical Exercise in BJT Reading Tasks activities in actual business situations through exercises and explanations. In this lecture, we will read various （https://www.tugs.co.jp/businessjapanese_temporary/） business articles.

When a foreigner is hired, they are often expected to handle translating and imterpreting tasks. The lecture deals 19 Translation, Interpreting and Business Japanese with some aspects of the Japanese language particularly relevent to translation and interpreting. 【Contact Us】 Toyo University Career Development Office In this lecture, as the final summary, we will have a comprehensive exercise in business Japanese. We will review 20 General BJT Advice; Preparation Resources and Tools the knowledge learned in the course and introduce useful materials and tools for future study. E-mail： [email protected]