JLPT Study Blog

A real month-by-month timeline from MEXT inquiry in May 2025 to Tokyo arrival in April 2026: 11 professor emails, 3 replies, 1 admit, and a 92,000 INR spend.

A field report from inside an Imperial-7 STEM lab: 10-to-5 core hours, weekly zemi seminars, senpai-kohai onboarding, and the unwritten rules nobody warns you about.

Reapply to MEXT after rejection: diagnose the real reason, fix the proposal, rebuild your professor list. Second-try success rates run 25–35% vs 15–20% first-time.

A 6-month JLPT N4-to-N3 sprint plan tied to Japan grad-school applications: 240 study hours, 4 phases, mock-test cadence, and how N3 plugs into your application.

Japan vs Singapore for CS grad school: tuition (3,600 USD vs 17,000+ SGD/year), admissions bar, language load, post-grad salaries, and a 4-question decision filter.

Master all 4 Japanese conditional forms - たら, ば, と, and なら. Learn when to use each with clear explanations and examples.

Master Japanese keigo (敬語) with this complete guide. Learn sonkeigo, kenjougo, and teineigo for business and formal situations.

Master the Japanese て-form with this comprehensive guide. Learn conjugation rules and all 15+ uses for JLPT N5-N3.

Master Japanese passive voice (受身形) with direct passive, indirect passive, suffering passive, and passive honorifics.

Master Japanese sentence ending particles (終助詞) like ね, よ, な, かな, の, and more for natural conversation.

Official JLPT 2026 test dates, expected registration windows, and result timing for July and December sessions, plus links to the right study and practice pages.

Learn the differences between からといって (just because) and からには (now that/since) in Japanese. JLPT N2 grammar.