抄録
The purposes of this study are to clarify the actual learning/teaching situation of Japanese education in Viet Nam before Doi Moi era and to explore the personal mean-making toward their job by analyzing oral histories of three Vietnamese who learned Japanese language in either USSR or North Korea. By examining their oral histories, the study shows in detail how they learned Japanese language in USSR or North Korea, and how they managed the Japanese language courses at higher education in 1960-80s. The study also finds that they eventually built the personal attachments toward their jobs which brought social affirmation to them even thought at first, they reluctantly accepted Japanese language learning/teaching as their allocated mission.
