Abstract
At Nihon University's short-term (three month) Japanese Language and Japan Studies Program, students take Japanese classes in which Japanese volunteers also partake. This offers students the opportunity to talk and interact with Japanese who are not teachers. Volunteers are selected and registered for each class. They sometimes ask foreign students to go out for sightseeing or have a meal together, and most foreign students enjoy their life in Japan with the help of these volunteers immensely. We would like to explain to you here in what way volunteers would get in contact with foreign students and what this means for foreign students.
