Our new location, Coto Japanese Club – Azabu Juban

We are happy to introduce our 2nd location, Coto Japanese Club – Azabu Juban! We are so excited to be welcoming students and friends past, present and future to our shiny new Coto Japanese Club in the heart of Azabu-juban in Minato-ku. We would love you to pop in during our Open House on 9 February 10:00- […]

What does Arigatou mean? – あいうえお Blog! 「あ」

  日本語はこちらから Hello, everyone! This will be the first in a series of blogs we will call  “AIUEO” IntroductionWhy choose Arigatou?Origins of ArigatouQuiz Time!   Introduction Here at Coto and our staff and teachers will be writing blogs about the Japanese language and Japanese culture in the coming weeks. The reason why our blog is […]

Basic Japanese Grammar Guide Part II – Particles (wa, ga, o, ni, de)

Basic Japanese Grammar: Using Particles Creating longer sentences in Japanese typically involves inserting different kinds of information in between the subject and predicate. To do this requires an understanding of basic Japanese grammar, which is why grammatical units known as “particles” help simplify this process. Japanese particles are similar to English prepositions, words like “in” and […]

Coto Japanese Academy February Events Calendar 2018

This is an older post – to see our upcoming monthly events – click here Monthly Events at Coto Every month we hold cultural and social events for our students and their friends to discover more about Japanese culture, meet new friends and practice Japanese. We are looking forward to seeing you there! Thursday, February […]