Abstract
This paper outlines the communication between foreign students and Japanese students via blogs in the “Basic Writing in Japanese Course”. The students wrote blogs once every two weeks as a part of their assignments. Foreign students could express themselves in Japanese through topics such as hobbies and weekend activities and wrote comments on their classmates’ entries. Foreign students were enthusiastic about this project which enable them to communicate with classmates and Japanese students. They felt it helped to improve their writing skills. Japanese students felt that they could understand foreign students’ culture and their language studies through blogs.
