Japanese: An important language to the U.S.

Maybe some of you jgo speakers can get jobs with the government upon returning home?

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Thirty students from the U.S. traveled to Kyoto last month under a new U.S. government initiative to boost the country’s number of Japanese speakers, to make the country more competitive globally.

The student trip was sponsored by the U.S. State Department as part of its Critical Language Scholarship Program, known as CLS, a government initiative aimed at improving the foreign language skills of U.S. citizens.

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http://www.japantoday.com/category/l...nguage-program