Useful Information

The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (Nihongo Nōryoku Shiken), or JLPT, is held twice a year in Japan and selected countries (on the first Sunday of July and December).

The application period for the July test is usually from late March to mid-April.

The application period for the December test is usually from late August to mid-September.

Website for Foreign Nationals as Residents to Learn Japanese Language

This website is intended for:

  • People who live in Japan and have no opportunity to study Japanese
  • People who have just moved to Japan and are learning the Japanese language for the first time

Features

  • The purpose of this website is to learn basic Japanese phrases and terms.
  • This website specializes in everyday situations of foreign nationals living in Japan.
  • Videos are provided as the main contents, which allow you to see in which situations the words you learn are utilized.

Bookstores in Sapporo

 Books Kinokuniya

  North 5, West 5

  10:00 - 21:00

  Japanese textbooks are on the second floor.

 MARUZEN and Junkudo Bookstore

  South 1, West 1

  10:00 - 21:00

  Japanese textbooks are on the second floor.

 BOOKS SANSEIDO

  North 5, West 2, Sapporo Stellar Place 5F

  10:00 - 21:00

Japanese Conjunctions list

Employment Service for Foreign Workers

 

This service desk is specialized to support foreign nationals and international students who are eager to find regular employment and /or part-time jobs in Japan.

It provides guidance for creating job application documents and correction service.

A Foreign Employment Management Advisor and Chinese/English/Korean interpreters are available on prescribed dates. (Please ask Hello Work Plaza Sapporo about the schedule in advance.)

[April 2019 to March 2020]

HELLO WORK PLAZA SAPPORO

TEL: 011-200-9923

Hokkaido, Sapporo, Chūō-ku, Kita 4 Jōnishi, 5-chōme−1-4 (Taiju Seimei Sapporo Kyodo Bldg., 5F)

Legal Information for Foreign Nationals

 

Houterasu (Japan Legal Support Center) provides multilingual information services.

Ask us about: Loan, divorce, labor, accident, visa, natural disaster, etc. 

We provide information on Japanese legal system, bar associations and relevant organizations at no cost.

  1. Call us at 0570-078377 (Multilingual Information Service. Call rates will apply.)
  2. Explain your situation to the interpreter.

Office Hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Hokkaido Labour Bureau

 

Advisory desk for foreign workers

9:00 - 16:30, Monday

Daiichi Godo Chosha 9F

The place is near SJLC lesson room.

This video collection of sentence patterns is produced based on the grammar items in “GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese”.

Free large Map of Japan/Calendar

 

BIC CAMERA Sapporo Store will distribute these around late November every year.