English

According to the research, Japanese is the worst people in speaking English in Asia. We study English from junior high school. Why did the research show such a result. The reason is from the past national isolation called "sakoku". Japan closed the door to Western countries in the Edo period. After the abolishing "sakoku", Japan sent some experts to West to get the information of West. When they came back, they translated the information into Japanese.　In this process, they did not need many people could speak English. Instead of them, Japan made students learn the translation into Japanese. This education system still exists today. We can translate English into Japanese but we are bad at speaking English and communicating with foreigners.