抄録
Japanese language education is mainly taking place in educational settings outside of Japan, and there is a variety in motivation to study and educational environments across different regions. Sakuma (2006) defined three types of Japanese education environments: 1. Environment with learners at secondary educational level; 2. Environment without emphasis on practicality of the Japanese language; 3. Environment with emphasis on tourism. This paper is a life story analysis of Japanese language educators from Kazakhstan (second type in classification by Sakuma (2006)), with a focus on regionalization.
