The growing number of overseas students who come to Japan for majoring in tourism is increasing. Many of them have difficulties in learning and understanding vocabulary not to mention kanji characters. This paper examines the vocabulary and kanji characters that are needed for those who are studying tourism. And it found that the existence of distinctive compound words that are frequently used in the tourism segments as well as katakana words that are commonly accepted in the industry but not in the general public at large. Also, as to kanji characters, it found that each one of kanji characters is not specifically difficult to absorb for the students however, the vocabularies using those kanji characters are particularly characteristic.

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This paper is a practical study in which an instructional plan for passive voice expression was created based on the results of a questionnaire survey and analysis of the writer's viewpoints using illustrations, and the class was given to intermediate and advanced learners of Japanese. First, a questionnaire survey was conducted in which native speakers of Japanese and learners of Japanese were presented with a four-frame illustration of the same story and asked to write freely. The results of this survey showed that in the illustration of the “story on the train,” the percentage of people who expressed active sentences from the viewpoint of the giver was higher than that of people who expressed passive sentences from the viewpoint of the receiver in both groups. The results showed that native speakers of Japanese wrote their essays with empathy for the feelings of those who were inconvenienced. Based on these results, we developed a teaching plan for passive expressions for learners of Japanese and conducted a class. In the free writing of the learners in the second class, the rate of misuse of passive expressions decreased, and the percentage of learners who used expressions expressing emotional movements increased. This survey revealed that in order to express more natural Japanese sentences, “expressions that empathize with the pain of those who are inconvenienced” are necessary, regardless of passive expressions.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the process of how learners need native language teachers should have learner’s mother tongue proficiency by using URAI (2017), which shows the dat a “More than 80% of learners think that native teachers should have learner’s mother tongue proficiency”. Analyzed the results of the interview using the M-GTA method, it showed 15 concepts. Through these concepts, learners don’t need “Learner’s mother tongue proficiency of Native teachers” as an ideal, and it has become clear that through the contact scene such as strategy and scene. However, they feel a necessity of it with “compromise”.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics of the meaning of “consideration” in Japanese through a contrastive study between Japanese and Chinese. It also aims to explore the cultural background of this word, such as attentive and concern. In this study, we used a corpus to organize Chinese words corresponding to the Japanese word “consideration”. The results showed that the Chinese words “zhao gu”, “kao lü”, “jian gu”, “guan xin”, “guan zhao”, “an pai”, “guan huai”, Through the contrastive study, it was found that “consideration” in Japanese covers situations that involve the speaker, such as natural phenomena and the environment. It can be said that the speaker is paying attention to a variety of possible situations. This kind of behavior seen in the Japanese word “consideration” shows the deep consideration and attentive in Japan and Japanese culture. On the other hand, being overly concerned about this and that can cause stress.

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This paper examines the relationships among Haruki Murakami's running, music and his creative activities, such as novel writing. First, I describe the characteristics of Murakami's style and introduce Makino (2013)'s idea that music is what makes his style, along with Shimizu (2017)' s idea that running influences his writing. Based on these considerations, this paper introduces a theory on connecting these two assertions. It next examines the characteristics of Murakami's running in terms of exercise physiology. The results show that running produces serotonin, which greatly influences his creative activities.

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