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English language competence in Japan is poor despite much schooling in English. However, students were proficient during the early history of English in Japan. Today's problems appear to have arisen from the Government's decisions to: (1) replace foreign teachers by Japanese teachers, and (2) replace secondary school textbooks written in English with Japanese texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the use of the English language in Japan. Efforts made by Japanese schools to foster the knowledge of English; Examples of English loan words in Japanese; Difficulties of construction and spelling.