JASSO Osaka Japanese Language Education Center

The Osaka Japanese Language Education Center is run by the Japan Student Services Organization, known as JASSO. Its building is at 8-3-13 Uehonmachi in Tennoji Ward. The centre gives walking routes from Osaka Uehonmachi, Shitennoji-mae Yuhigaoka and Tanimachi Kyuchome stations. These approaches make the campus accessible from several railway and underground lines and give students a concrete address for planning regular attendance.

Preparing for higher education in Japan

The preparatory programme combines intensive Japanese with foundation subjects. JASSO gives mathematics, physics, chemistry and geography as examples. The combination is especially relevant to international applicants who need to study academic material in Japanese. One-year and eighteen-month routes have distinct entry points. The admission notices also distinguish applicants applying from overseas from people who are already resident in Japan.

The centre separately advertises short programmes, including summer Japanese conversation and basic Japanese for daily use. These are useful possibilities for a learner whose immediate goal is everyday communication. They are published with their own dates and application arrangements. When choosing between the short and preparatory routes, start with the intended next step: attending a Japanese higher education institution entails a very different commitment from spending part of a summer practising conversation.