Japanese language education in Vietnam

Japanese language education in Vietnam first became widespread during the Empire of Vietnam, which was set up as a puppet state after Japan's 1941 World War II invasion of French Indochina. However, after Japan's 1945 surrender and withdrawal from Vietnam, there was little further education in the language until the 1970s.[1] A 2006 survey showed 1,037 teachers teaching 29,982 students at 110 different institutions, an increase of 66% in the number of students since the previous year's survey.[2][3] As of 2021, according to the Japan Foundation, 169,582 people were learning Japanese in Vietnam.[4][5][6]

In the Empire of Vietnam

Japan's invasion of Indochina began in September 1940; by July of the following year, they had reached the southern end of Vietnam. However, courses in Japanese were not established until March 1942, largely under the direction of semi-private associations such as the Japanese Residents' Association (日本人会). By April 1943, education in Japanese as a second language was being conducted in Hanoi, Haiphong, and Saigon targeted not only at Vietnamese people, but local ethnic Chinese and French people as well. In Hanoi, the authorities set up two night courses, one in a primary school and one in a Chinese middle school; the courses offered only three contact hours per week of instruction. 1,000 students attended the classes. The courses in Haiphong was more intense, with ten contact hours per week; a total of 270 students enrolled. Saigon featured the largest concentration of courses; seven schools, including the Saigon Japanese School (サイゴン日本語学校), the Affiliated Japanese School of Nanyō Gakuen (南洋学院附属日本語学校) and the Kyōei Japanese Academy (共栄日語学院) offered courses from three to twelve hours per week, enrolling a total of 900 students. The total number of students was reported by local newspapers to have grown to 2,500 by May 1944.[1]

The teaching materials, locally published after the invasion, were written largely in romanisation or katakana and aimed at comprehension of simple spoken language. Motivations for study included the need to communicate and do business with the occupying troops, the desire to find jobs in Japanese-managed companies which began setting up offices in Vietnam, and for civil servants, the administrative needs of the new government. After the Japanese withdrawal, the need for the language disappeared, along with the teaching staff for the schools. However, some people educated in Japanese during this era would go on to play a role in the revival of Japanese language teaching in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Nguyen Ngoc Canh, who helped the University of Foreign Trade set up the first postwar Japanese course in 1962.[1]　

Education and industry

Hanoi Foreign Languages University and the University of Foreign Trade establish regular elective courses in Japanese in 1973.[3] Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon University followed with a course in 1975. A school in Huế also began offering a course in 1993, but it closed in 2001; a course at Danang's University of Foreign Languages was found in a 2002 survey by Niigata University.[7] Schools such as Hanoi's Chu Van An High School and Ho Chi Minh City's Le Quy Don School began offering the language to senior high school students in 2003.[8] Chu Van An School also extended its Japanese language teaching to its junior high school students later that year, making it the first school to offer a Japanese course to students at that level; aimed at seventh graders, the course met twice per week and used textbooks donated by the Japanese government.[9]

The Vietnam Software Association (VINASA) foresee a major shortfall in the number of proficient Japanese speakers relative to the needs of their industry; they projected that 18,000 programmers would be needed if they hoped to meet their target of capturing 10% of the Japanese outsourcing market, but as of 2004, the country only had 500 information technology who could speak Japanese. The average salary of a new university graduate working in the IT industry in Vietnam was VND2 million/month as of 2006; a graduate with proficiency in Japanese could earn VND3.2 million/month in Vietnam, but with wages of Vietnamese programmers working in Japan through manpower agencies from four to twelve times that amount, most Japanese-speaking IT staff prefer to work in Japan.[10][11]

Various tie-ups between industry and universities have resulted as companies seek to resolve their labour issues; VINASA are working with Hanoi's FPT University to set up a Japanese language programme for students of the university's embedded software faculty, while Japanese software development corporation Sorun plans to open a Japanese language school in a joint venture with the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, with the aim of reducing their own shortage of engineers; they plan to sponsor the top 10 graduates to come to Japan to work at their Tokyo headquarters.[12][13] Similarly, NEC set up a job centre to match Japanese-speaking people in Vietnam with Japanese companies seeking employees, aiming to find 300 employees by 2010; however, in 6 months, they only managed to match 8 people.[14]

Standardised testing

JLPT examinees in Vietnam
Year City Examinees by Level
L1 L2 L3 L4 Total
2006[15] Hanoi 220 971 1151 198 2540
Ho Chi Minh City 251 1766 2594 894 5505
2005[16] Hanoi 171 615 495 159 1440
Ho Chi Minh City 204 1134 1979 491 3808
2004[17] Hanoi 138 501 259 94 992
Ho Chi Minh City 143 760 1239 430 2572
2003[18] Hanoi 108 457 253 89 907
Ho Chi Minh City 112 591 863 248 1814
2002 Hanoi Data missing
Ho Chi Minh City Data missing
2001[19] Hanoi 81 335 146 11 573
Ho Chi Minh City 82 375 691 336 1483
2000[20] Hanoi 81 261 143 14 499
Ho Chi Minh City 72 325 726 336 1459
1999[21] Hanoi 62 293 132 31 518
1998[21] Hanoi - - - - 424

The Japanese Language Proficiency Test was first offered in Hanoi; an additional test site was added in Ho Chi Minh City in 2000, which in its first year received almost triple the number of examinees as the Hanoi site.[20] The number of examinees in 2006 was almost triple the 2003 total, and nineteen times the 1998 total. Until 2005, the pattern of examinees differed between the two cities, with the Level 2 examination, aimed at students who have completed 600 contact hours of instruction, being most popular in Hanoi, while the easier the Level 3 examinations, aimed at students who have completed 300 contact hours of instruction, received the largest number of examinees in Ho Chi Minh City. This changed in 2006, the Level 3 examination was the most widely attempted in both cities.[15][18][21] Most graduates of university-level Japanese courses take the Level 2 examination, which is demanded by factories selling products to Japanese buyers; however, employers in the hospitality and tourism industry feel Level 3 examinees possess sufficient ability to deal with their job requirements.[7] JETRO's Business Japanese Proficiency Test was not offered in Vietnam as of 2006.[22]

See also

References

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