VIDEO: Insights into Being a High School Student in Japan

Check out my video or read on below for my tips about studying abroad in Japan.

First things first, making friends!

Now I`m sure you are already aware that this is absolutely important, but I still feel the need to mention it! Japanese students are very shy, so you really need to put yourself out there and make an effort to make friends. Once you make one friend, it should be a lot easier to make the next. Just keep reminding yourself to not give up, and that hard work is worth it in the end.

The second thing I mentioned in this video is some information about how the classroom in Japan works.

As I mentioned in the video, Japanese classrooms are extremely different from American classrooms. For one, you stay in your classroom and the teacher comes to you. Rarely do you go to another classroom unless it`s an exception like music or P.E class.

Finally, in Japan however, rarely does the teacher address the students.

In America, the students often raise hands, ask questions and the teacher interacts quite often with his/her students. This is not the case in Japan. The Japanese teacher will talk and write down on the board while the students listen and take notes. Those same notes will later be handed to the teacher at the end of the semester.