Welcome to the all new Iolani Japanese website. Use the navigation in the corner to find your way around the site, and click on the text to return to the main foreign languages page at any time. Enjoy your visit!

Students begin with elementary conversational forms and everyday vocabulary and progress to technical vocabulary and honorific speech appropriate to business in real life. Hiragana and Katakana are covered in the first year and Kanji of increasing difficulty is introduced at level II. Calligraphy (brush writing) is introduced in Japanese III. Lessons are regularly reinforced through cultural presentations, student, teachers, guest lecturers. Japanese IV and V are conducted entirely in Japanese. In the prestigious State of Hawaii Sterling Scholar Competition, Iolani has produced five winners in the foreign language division, four of whom were from the Japanese language department.