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Why are 53,000 Indians learning Japanese?

There were only around six thousand people learning Japanese in India when I enrolled in the graduate program in Japanese at Jawaharlal…

Dec 02, 2025 · 3 min read · 5 claps #japanese-language #india #日本語教育

Why are 53,000 Indians learning Japanese?

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015. Moshi Migi ya Hidari ga Nakattara by Kyoko Inoue(Books I read in 2025)

First published in 1998, Inoue Kyoko’s book ‘Moshi Migi ya Hidari ga Nakattara’ (What if there was no Right or Left?) is a great book for…

Jul 14, 2025 · 2 min read · 4 claps #books-i-read-in-2025 #kyoko-inoue #language

015. Moshi Migi ya Hidari ga Nakattara by Kyoko Inoue(Books I read in 2025)

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Who will teach my child Japanese?

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)- in its 2021 report states that the number of non-native children…

Sep 19, 2024 · 7 min read · 2 claps #bic #calp #jle

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022. Manuṣyanŭ oru Āmukham (lit. A Preface to Humans)

If human life means that a brave, free, and above all a creative human child, over the course of sixty or seventy years, turns into a timid…

Jul 26, 2026 · 2 min read · 2 claps #booksiread #booksireadin2026 #subhash-chandran

022. Manuṣyanŭ oru Āmukham (lit. A Preface to Humans)

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014. Contact by Carl Sagan(Books I read in 2025)

Growing up in the nineties, I had no idea about the TV show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Most of my time staring at the idiot box was spent…

Jun 29, 2025 · 3 min read · 1 claps #carl-sagan #books-i-read-in-2025

014. Contact by Carl Sagan(Books I read in 2025)

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016. Atarashī Nihongo-Kyōiku no Tame ni [For a New Japanese Language Education] by Jiří V.

For anyone involved in the field of Japanese Language Education, Jiří V. Neustupný is a familiar name. Born in Prague in 1933, Neustupný…

Jul 28, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 claps #books-i-read-in-2025 #neustupný #japanese-language

016. Atarashī Nihongo-Kyōiku no Tame ni [For a New Japanese Language Education] by Jiří V.

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019. Hasshūkan Gogaku no Tabi [An Eight Week Language Adventure]

Published in August 2025, the full title of the book is Hasshūkan Gogaku no Tabi -Mizusaki Annainin Hazurecchi to Samazama na Gengo no Umi…

Dec 19, 2025 · 4 min read · 0 claps #books-i-read-in-2025 #language-learning #yamamoto-saeri

019. Hasshūkan Gogaku no Tabi [An Eight Week Language Adventure]

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018. Monolingualism of the Other

Originally published in the late nineties, this book delves into the relationship between language and one’s identity. Before I proceed, I…

Dec 07, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #jacques-derrida #books-i-read-in-2025 #language

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013. Gakumon to Shite no Kyōiku-gaku by Ittoku Tomano (Books I read in 2025)

Published in 2022, the English title of this book ‘The Metatheory System of Pedagogy’ curiously only appearing once on the front cover of…

Jun 22, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #books-i-read-in-2025 #ittoku-tomano #education

013. Gakumon to Shite no Kyōiku-gaku by Ittoku Tomano (Books I read in 2025)

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017. Manabi e no Sasoi [What does it mean to Learn?]

Manabi e no Sasoi is part of a six-book series published by the University of Tokyo Press in 1995 under the title ‘Manabi to Bunka’…

Aug 07, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #books-i-read-in-2025 #pedagogy #learning

017. Manabi e no Sasoi [What does it mean to Learn?]

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020. Mathrubhumi Weekly (Republic Edition) & 021.

The last update in this series was three months ago in December 2025 and the sole reason is that I haven’t read much apart from these two…

Mar 28, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #booksiread #vinil-paul #mathrubhumi

020. Mathrubhumi Weekly (Republic Edition) & 021.

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When Japan Appeared on the Telugu Stage: Translating Japaneeyamu (1910)

How did Japan appear to Indian readers more than a century ago — before anime, before technology partnerships, before “Japan” became…

Feb 03, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #japan #japaneeyamu