Business Japanese Program (BJP)

JAIMS provides the Japanese language and culture training to prepare students to work effectively in Japan.

Learning Objectives

Course content may vary depending on the individual student's proficiency, but students finishing the program will have an understanding of the following:

• Japanese history
• Geography
• Literature
• Sociology
• Life in Japan
• Japanese characters

Language Objectives

300+ hours of language training includes raising proficiency levels in reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills within a business context as well as becoming familiar with corporate and social culture.

Prior language training is helpful but not required. You will be tested and placed in a class according to your proficiency.

Business Japanese Program and Culture

Intensive Business Japanese Communication courses are aimed at raising proficiency levels in reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills within a business context.  Prior language training is helpful but not required.  Students are tested and placed in classes according to individual proficiency.  Instruction runs concurrently with other courses for the duration of the program.  Course content may vary depending on the proficiency and distribution of students in any given year.

Capstone Field Experience: Internship in Japan

The JEMBA capstone is a three-month internship at a company or organization in Japan.  While engaged in the day-to-day operations of an organization in Japan, participants practice Japanese business and communication techniques, and learn how to conduct business.  The internship is the definitive experience for JEMBA students, bringing to the forefront the business knowledge, language, and intercultural skills learned in the coursework covered.