Business Course
Intensive advanced course focusing on Japanese business communication.
Semester Dates
February 20, 2025 - March 27, 2025
February 22, 2025 - March 22, 2024
- Communicate in Japanese appropriate for business situations.
- Speak at meetings and give presentations in Japanese.
- Read essential personal information, such as your address.
Since Shinjuku Japanese Language Institute began offering business Japanese 20 years ago, it has become a popular course selection for advanced level students. In order to take this class, students must have a Japanese language ability equivalent to the JLPT N2. The course utilizes “New Businessman Story,” an original textbook created by SNG instructors. Through 50 different business situation role-plays, all using keigo (polite speech), students will learn Japanese business language, manners, and writing styles. Students will study using a variety of sources concerning business and economics. Every term, students participate in a “new product design meeting” team project, where groups compete to create the best new design.
Goals
- Communicate in Japanese appropriate for business situations.
- Speak at meetings and give presentations in Japanese.
- Read essential personal information, such as your address.
- Formal language and polite expressions in different contexts (keigo)
- Greetings and self-introduction in a company
- Training
- Understand the company organization
- Receive instructions from your boss
- Explain problems and features
- Listen to customer needs
- How to write a proposal, explain the features of a product
- Recommending products to customers
- Complaint handling
- Read and explain sales materials
- Negotiate prices with business partners
- Chat with colleagues
- Exchanging business cards when visiting other companies
- On the telephone
- Make an appointment
- Express your opinion (agree/disagree)
- Read and summarize newspaper articles
- Emails
- Entertaining guests from overseas
- Basic manners of Japanese cuisine
- Explain the contents of a graph
- Give your opinion to your boss
- Set the date and time of the meeting
- Business trip report, summarizing the contents of the business trip
- Write a notice
- Make a reservation for a conference room
Requirements: Advanced N2~N1 level Japanese. Or must have passed or placed higher than our Intermediate II course.
Total: 120 hours
1 Class [ 15 hours ] = Cost: JPY 33,000
100% Online
Take classes from anywhere.
Certified teachers
Native instructors from Tokyo
Shareable certificate
Certificate upon completion
15 hour courses
Once or twice a week.

Takahide Ezoe, Principal of SNG
The Shinjuku Japanese Language Institute (SNG) has its own original teaching style called "the Ezoe Method" used in our beginner class. With over 48 years of experience teaching foreign students from over 50 countries, the Ezoe Method is widely considered the best way to learn Japanese both in the classroom and through online courses.

Shinjuku Japanese Language Institute
Our Japanese language school is 100% approved and certified by the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education. You can rest assured that you will receive a quality education accepted by the top government organizations in Japan. We are also recognized by the international standard ISO (ISO 29991:2014) as a language learning services provider organization.
Internet Access
Please make sure you have access to a strong enough internet connection that will allow you to see and hear a video stream.
Devices
PC, tablet or smartphone is necessary to attend online classes. Headphones are recommended for listening practice but are not mandatory.
Japanese level
Please check the course overview before applying to see if you meet the minimum Japanese language requirements for this class.
Software
This course will be conducted using Zoom or Google Meet. Please download this software for class. No additional purchase necessary.
- Twice a week
- Tuesdays & Thursdays 7pm-8:30pm*
- Once a week
- Saturdays 10am-1pm*
- *Japan Standard Time GMT+9
- JPY 1,650 per hour with 30 hours enrollment.
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