Saturday, July 11, 2009

Speak Mandarin in Japan?!

Now there is more than half a million Chinese Nationals in Japan. Perhaps in the near future, schools in Japan will introduce Chinese and Korea language for their Junior High School.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/registered-foreign-population-in-japan-hits-record-high-221-million

Many tourist spots and shopping malls now have directories and voice overs in Chinese and Korea (besides the regular English). Some food eateries and fast food has English and Mandarin menus too. It is no longer difficult to travel in Japan if you do not understand Japanese.

1 comment:

corn said...

but then if there's too much of understanding...

it makes it even less unique.

=(