Chapter 2. Towards the Enrichment and Spread of Culture
�6 The Global Spread of Japanese Language Education
2. For Learners of Japanese throughout the World
(5) Japanese language education for lndo-Chinese refugees and returnees from extended stays in China
Japan, as a member of the international community, is promoting the resettlement of numerous Indo-Chinese ill th1S country. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture has commissioned the Foundation for the Welfare and Education of Asian People to provide four months of intensive Japanese language instruction to refugees desiring to resettle in Japan, to allow them to acquire the language ability that will be necessary to their lives in Japan. In order to further facilitate their smooth adaptation to everyday life after resettlement in Japan. for those desirous of further language study. the Ministry dispatches Japanese language teachers and provides teaching materials to classes taught by volunteer groups, etc.
With the normalization or Sino-Japanese relations in 1972, Japanese orphans who were left behind in China after World War 11 have begun to return to Japan in great numbers, along with their families. Mastery of the Japanese language is essential to the everyday life of these returnees if they are to resettle successfully in Japan. The Agency for Cultural Affairs has compiled teaching materials and guide books, and has distributed them free of charge both to the returnees and to the leaders who teach them the Japanese language. At the same time it organizes in-service training courses and study meetings for the leaders to facilitate the returnees' smooth learning of the Japanese language.
