Survey of Overseas Organizations Involved in Japanese-Language Education

[Astroboy]

The Japan Foundation conducts a survey every few years of overseas organizations offering Japanese-language courses in order to obtain an accurate picture of the Japanese-language teaching around the world.
The Japan Foundation

2006 Survey of Overseas Organizations Involved in Japanese-Language Education, recently released, indicates interesting results. http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/japan/oversea/survey.html

Korea, China, and Australia were the top three countries in terms of numbers of students learning Japanese language.

1. S Korea (the most famous anti-Japan history nation): 910,957 students
2. China (the most famous anti-Japan sentiment nation: 684,366
3. Australia (the most famous anti-Japanese whaling nation: 366,165

http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/japan/oversea/img/2006_03.pdf

.....mmmm... something anti-Japan is learning Japanese language????
Very inscrutable, indeed.

 

[orochi]

How are any of those countries anti-Japan?

 

[heianbutterfly]

Lol Know your enemy

In the case of Australia, it's not anti-Japanese apart from the whaling thing. I think because of trade, Japanese is one of the top languages studied.