About the Program
| Fall 2010 Sept. 13 - Jan. 31 |
| Spring 2011 Feb. 14 - Jun. 27 |
Our Japanese Program offers you:
- 2 terms per year (see the table below)
- 17-week conversational Japanese courses
- elementary, intermediate and advanced levels
- experienced native teachers
- Showa's Japanese college students as conversation practice partners
- small classes with individualized instruction
- affordable tuition
- free parking
This program is intended for adult men and women (high schoolers included).
For more information, call 617.522.0080, x5099
or email
( "japanese" plus "@showaboston.org" ).
Classes start during the week of September 13, and continue for 17 weeks. Each class meets once a week.
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| Day | Class | Time | Instructor |
| Monday |
Intermediate 2-A - |
6:00 - 7:40pm - |
Sekiguchi - |
| Tuesday |
Intermediate 3-B Elementary 1-B Elementary 1-A |
6:00 - 7:40pm 6:00 - 7:40pm 7:50 - 9:30pm |
Sekiguchi Hattori Hattori |
| Wednesday |
Special Class Advanced 4-B Advanced 4-A |
6:00 - 7:40pm 6:00 - 7:40pm 7:50 - 9:30pm |
Ikuma * Usui Ikuma |
| Thursday |
Intermediate 2-C - |
6:00 - 7:40pm - |
Sekiguchi - |
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Instructors & Assistants
| has taught Japanese and cross-cultural classes to companies
in the Boston area for over nine years. She also has taught Japanese for the Japan
Society of Boston. Ms. Hattori has an M.B.A. from Northeastern University and a B.A.
from Meiji University in Japan. |
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| graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Ikuma-sensei is the director of Japanese Language Program and he has been
teaching Japanese at Showa Boston since 1989. He received his M.Ed. from Harvard
Graduate School of Education. |
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| graduated from Nihon University. He completed an
Advanced Teacher Training Course at Sendagaya Japanese Institute in Tokyo
and received a certificate for teaching Japanese from the institute. Mr. Sekiguchi
has been teaching at Showa Boston since 1997. |
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| has taught Japanese in Australia and the U.S. including
Rutgers University, and has given cross-cultural training to professionals. She
is a graduate from Aichi University and studied Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia
University. |
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A select group of Japanese students studying at
Showa Boston will be available for conversational practice during the
classes.
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Take Huntington Avenue (Route 9 west) past the Museum of Fine Arts onto Route 1
South/Providence (Jamaica Way). Follow Route 1 for 2/3 miles until you pass Jamaica
Pond on right. After you pass the Pond take a right at the first set of lights onto
Pond Street. Follow half a mile. At top of hill, turn left at blue sign for
Showa Boston.
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Take I95/State highway 128 to exit 20, Route 9 Eastbound. Follow Route 9 for 4
1/4 miles to Lee Street (past Atrium Mall on right and Chestnut Hill Mall on left).
Take right on Lee Street and follow to the end (a mile plus) then take a left on Newton
Street.
At the fork in the road about 80 yards up bear right, this is still Newton Street. When you cross the town line from Brookline to Boston, Newton Street becomes Pond Street. Showa is on the right just after the Larz Anderson Park. |
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Follow airport exit road signs for the Sumner Tunnel. At the end of the
tunnel take 2nd right following signs for Interstate 93 North. Follow 93 for two
exits to exit #26 and follow signs to Storrow Drive. Follow Storrow Drive West to
Fenway Route 1 (hard left), then bear right onto Boylston Street outbound.
Stay on Boylston Street to the 4th set of lights where you bear right on Park Drive. (Do not take hard right onto Brookline Avenue). On Park Avenue about 80 yards up bear left on to the Riverway. (Do not go hard left on to Fenway). After Route 9 the Riverway becomes the Jamaicaway. Follow passed the Jamaica Pond. After the Pond take a right at the first set of lights onto Pond Street. At top of hill, turn left at blue sign for Showa Boston. |
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Riverside branch of the MBTA's "Green Line" (D) from Boston to
Reservoir Station. At Reservoir Station walk upstairs and take #51 bus (Cleveland
Circle to Forest Hills) to the corner of Clyde Street and Newton Street.
Take a left on Newton Street after 80 yards Newton Street forks to right and turns into Pond Street when crossing Brookline/ Boston line. Showa is on the right just after the Larz Anderson Park. Walk will take 15 to 20 minutes. |
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