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Teachers & Staff.

How our teachers guide learning, and how the wider team supports student life.

Our educators

Staying with you until you can do it yourself.

Teaching Japanese well is the baseline. What we actually ask of our teachers is to keep going until the student can do it alone. We call that being a facilitator rather than a lecturer.

Give someone the answer and today's problem is solved.
But the next time it happens, they still can't move.

Give the question. Wait through the silence. Connect them outward. Ask for something slightly too hard. Make them reflect. Then prepare to step back.
Not to lengthen a job description — so that the student changes.

Teachers

Meet four of our teachers.

Teachers with professional Japanese-language education backgrounds support daily lessons, study guidance and progression planning. Here are four members of the FLA teaching team.

Japanese is the foundation

Students build their Japanese steadily through daily work in integrated Japanese, kanji, listening and reading.

Time to think for yourself

We do not rush to give the answer. Students are asked to think, put ideas into words and try for themselves.

From class into the community

Inquiry, project work and local activities turn classroom Japanese into language that can be used in real situations.

Toshiko Azumasince 2024

Head Teacher

Studied at: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Open University of Japan
Qualifications: Completed teacher-training course · 9 years teaching Japanese
Teaches: Integrated Japanese, extensive reading, listening & reading, pathway guidance

Phan Thi Thuy Nhiensince 2025

Teacher

Studied at: University of Foreign Languages, Hue University — Japanese Language and Culture
Qualifications: 420-hour teacher-training course · 7 years teaching · supports students in Vietnamese
Teaches: Integrated Japanese, reading, kanji, writing

Ryusei Fujisakisince 2024

Teacher

Studied at: Faculty of Law, Ryukoku University
Qualifications: Passed the Japanese Language Teaching Competency Test
Teaches: Integrated Japanese, kanji, reading, pathway guidance

Hayato Kondosince 2025

Teacher

Studied at: Graduate School of Language Sciences (major in Japanese language education), Kanda University of International Studies
Qualifications: Major in Japanese language education · passed the Registered Japanese Teacher examination
Teaches: Integrated Japanese, extensive reading, listening & reading, pathway guidance

Language support

You can talk to us in your own language.

While your Japanese is still finding its feet, the important conversations are better held in your own language. Among our full-time staff, five speak English, three Chinese, two Vietnamese and one Nepali.

Staff

The team behind your daily life here.

They are a specialist team that makes student life work: residence procedures, setting up daily life, health, pathways, contact with your family. If one of those breaks down, you cannot concentrate on studying.

Residence status and administrative procedures
Setting up life in the first weeks
Part-time work kept within the law (permission, 28 hours per week)
Health and personal consultation
Disaster and emergency response
Attendance monitoring and early meetings
Pathway guidance and information sessions
Contact with families and partner organisations

ICT

An ICT lead supports both study and communication.

Learning materials run on tablets. Online contact before you arrive, information sharing with families and partner organisations, and the recording of study and attendance are all handled by a designated person — as part of the support itself, not as a nice extra.

Message

We build the door in — and stay for what comes after.

Around the world there are young people who want to learn Japanese and take on a challenge in Japan. Our job is to build the door in — and then not to leave them alone: through arrival, study, daily life and their next step. They learn in Fukui, they grow, and they go on to their own futures. That is what this school exists for.

Toshihide Inoue — Principal, and President of Global Link Co., Ltd.

Ask us who will be teaching you.

We'll explain how classes are grouped and how lessons actually run.

Use the contact form Email us (info@fla.ac.jp) Call us (+81-776-89-1017)