Kanagawa Prefectural Yokohama Senior High School of International Studies (YIS) sets its educational goal on fostering students’ communication skills and communication technology skills so that it empowers the students to be actively engaged in the global society. This Practice Report provides examples of foreign language teaching activities and especially those of German teaching activities at YIS, such as daily lessons, the open lesson day, preparation for the school festival and our school exchange program.

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The more languages we know, the more views of the world we get, and the better we understand ourselves. This paper discusses fundamental principles, overseas trends and domestic reforms of multi-foreign language education in Japan. The state of multi-foreign language education policy in Japan is not satisfactory at present in comparison with other countries. The writer’s stance toward this issue, however, is rather positive, because there are teachers and students who are dedicated to enhance a multi-foreign language education in Japan. With this standpoint, the possibilities of spreading a multi-foreign language education in Japan are explored in this paper.

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