The Alliance offers training and professional development to Japanese language teachers in a variety of forms: by sponsoring workshops and summer institutes, by awarding individual small grants, and by sponsoring publications and materials. Classroom materials developed by teachers participating in these activities are offered to others in the field via this website.

Please check back regularly for new additions to the site.

Summer Language, Culture and Technology Institute, Urawa, Japan 2004
A variety of multimedia resources designed for classroom use in grades K-12.
Includes PowerPoint, digital video, interviews, still photography, and the resources of the Internet.
These files are ready to be downloaded for use in classrooms.

Gakusei Seikatsu (Student Life in Japan) website
This multimedia website was created by participants in AATJ’s Summer 2006 Language, Culture, and Technology Institute in Urawa, Japan. It has been revised and updated and contains a variety of materials (music, films, interviews, and documents) on both elementary and high-school education in Japan.

More classroom materials by participants in AATJ’s 2006 Summer Institute will be posted soon, as well as materials developed during a 2007 Summer Institute for K-16 teachers.

JLTN Quarterly Classroom Materials Supplements
The Japanese Language Teachers Network (JLTN) Quarterly in the 1990s published classroom materials by high school teachers. These materials, focusing not only on language learning but on aspects of Japanese culture and society, were offered as an early version of "freeware," which could be easily copied and used by teachers in their own classes. Materials that are available in electronic form can be downloaded here. Other materials are available in printed form by writing to

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