泉岡　春美
Harumi Izuoka

Sendai Language School was established and started foreign language education in August 1988 as Profit Foreign Language School, then later the name changed to Sendai Language School. In 1993, we opened the Japanese course for students to come to Japan to study Japanese. We have worked hard and spent a lot of time to help our students to gain Japanese ability.

We now live in a globalized world, sharing ideas across country borders. So we think that Japan must take leadership in international issues, just as we did with the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is important that Japan transfer environmental technology to the developing countries in Asia in order to save their natural resources and eco development. The language holds very important positions with international relations and internationalization. As people think English is the most important language for international communication, we also predict that Japanese could be one of the most important languages. Therefore, we believe that the promotion of the Japanese language is our mission.

The Japanese government has announced a plan for 300,000 international students, saying that Japan needs honor students from foreign countries to maintain and develop the Japanese economy. The plan may take time, but Sendai Language School wants to help speed up the process. All of the Sendai Language School faculty and students would like to devote all of our energy to providing honor students.

Sendai Language School will have its 20th Anniversary in 2008. In this meaningful year, we will start a new project in the Japanese Course: specialized classes for our students to prepare for college entrance examinations. This trial is still new in all Japanese educational institutes, but we believe that this experiment will work out so that many of our students will pass the entrance exams for prestigious colleges. At present, authorized Japanese Language Schools are required to offer four one-hour lessons a day for 5 days a week. Our new project will add two hours a day to the regular Japanese lessons. This will be required of all the students under certain conditions. We strongly hope that this project will be successful in preparing our students to be outstanding manpower. We also hope that we could show this new style of education to other Japanese language schools in Japan. In addition to this new project in the Japanese course, we would also like to add new exam-certifying classes to the foreign language courses.

Sendai Language School Japanese course

・Authorized by Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education

・Director school of Japanese Language School Association Teacher Training Course Contact Conference

Sendai Language School Foreign Language course

・A member of Association of Foreign Language Schools (supervised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

SLS Bldg.5F 1-16-23, Ichiban-cho, Aoba-ku,Sendai, Miyagi 980-0811 JAPAN
TEL: +81-22-266-8181
FAX: +81-22-266-8182

Sendai Language School is closely connected with the SUGAWARA GAKUEN Group. Graduates of the Sendai Language School Japanese course are given priority in admission upon recommendation to enter SUGAWARA GAKUEN because of the network. Students who have gained admission through recommendation will get privileges such as being exempt from admission fees and other expenses.

【Tokyo JE Language School 　-Tokyo-】

This is a very reliable school with a capacity of 140 students.　The school is located in a very convenient place : a one minute walk from Kiba station (Tokyo Metro, Tozai Line) We often exchange information with Sendai Language School through good communication. Students’ recruitment and interviews can be jointly held abroad.

A member of the councilors from Tokyo region of Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education