Teaching with Tech: The Digital Tools Supporting Foreign Children’s Education in Japan

The Fukuoka Municipal Board of Education is testing remote classes for foreign children. (© Tanaka Keitarō)

The tablet app Surala Nihongo helps students learn conversational Japanese on a tablet. Text in the student’s native language (Khmer in the image shown) appears at the bottom of the screen to aid understanding. (© Surala Net)

The E-Tra Note screen as displayed on a computer. Users can choose a situation (“request submission of health questionnaire” is selected here) to automatically generate appropriate sentences. (Courtesy Wakabayashi Hideki)