Languages Open Doors to a New World

In the year 2001, JUAAB started Elementary Japanese Language classes at its rented space in Panthapath with the initiative of a Founder Member Prof. Dr. AKM Moazzem Hussain (who was trained in Japanese Language Teaching by the Japan Foundation in Tokyo in 1975) and the help of a young Japanese student of Dhaka University Mr. Hiroki Watanabe.
Later on two Japanese Language Teachers, Mr. Kojima and Mrs. Eiko Hussain Kambe, came forward to help us. However, after a few years, the Japanese classes were discontinued when the JUAAB Office was shifted to the Dhanmondi area in a residential building, which was not a convenient place for school activities.
With a gap of about two years, the Japanese Language classes of JUAAB were restarted at the newly rented office space at Indira Road in the Farmgate Area. At that time, we received a lot of teaching materials from the Japan Foundation and also from the AOTS Alumni Japanese Language School in Dhaka. We also got Mrs. Tamie Rahman, an excellent Japanese Language Teacher of the Dhaka University, to become the main teacher of our school.
Within the next two years, our school became a Member of the Sakura Network of the Japan Foundation and we got a grassroots donation of about 600,000 Taka from the Japan Foundation to improve our classroom facilities. Later more native teachers joined including Mr. Okabayashi, Mrs. Chieko Kabir, Mrs. Mizuta, Mrs. Kaneko etc. The school started offering Long Courses along with Short Courses.
JUAAB also started organizing Japanese Language Speech Contest for Bangladeshi people and Bengali Language Speech Contest for Japanese people living in Bangladesh. In 2010, Mrs. Natsuko Sato Chakraborty joined as a Japanese Language Teacher and later became the Principal of the School.
Around that time Bangladesh was included as a center for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) through the recommendation of the Embassy of Japan. JUAAB was given the responsibility of conducting JLPT in Bangladesh. JLPT is conducted in July and December every year and JUAAB has been successfully conducting it since then.
Currently the Japanese Language School operates at Indira Road near Farmgate Metro Rail Station which is convenient for students from all over Dhaka.