For 2021, we are holding our Japanese Language Festival 2021, which consists of two events: the “38th Annual Washington State Japanese Speech & Skit Contest,” and the Japanese Language Festival online event.
Date: March 6th, 2021 | 2:45 PM - 4:30 PM PST
38th ANNUAL WASHINGTON STATE JAPANESE SPEECH & SKIT CONTEST
This year, the 38th Annual Washington State Japanese Speech & Skit Contest was held as an online event, and we invited high school and college students from all over Washington State to submit a video of themselves giving a speech or performing a skit in Japanese. For the Speech Contest, students could talk about the theme “My Year in 2020.” For the Skit Contest, we invited students to perform a skit based on any theme of their liking.
Winners of the Japanese Speech & Skit Contest will be announced during the Japanese Language Festival 2021 on March 6.
For more information on the Japanese Speech & Skit Contest, please visit our official Japanese Speech & Skit Contest website.
JAPANESE LANGUAGE FESTIVAL 2021
Location: Online Zoom event
The Japanese Language Festival 2021 is a new event that celebrates the Japanese language and the students who are learning it! With this online event, we will provide entertainment and educational activities for high school students and college students to practice their Japanese language skills.
Such exciting activities include:
A Japanese trivia Kahoot! quiz. The top three winners will win an Amazon gift card!
A live Rakugo (traditional Japanese comedy) performance by Yanagiya Tozaburo.
Announcement of the Japanese Speech & Skit Contest winners.
Join a breakout room to meet other students who are studying Japanese and talk with each other about Japan.
Learn about the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme by meeting current JET Participants and Alumni JET participants.
Registration for this festival is FREE!
For more information and to register, please visit the Japanese Language Festival event page.
These joint events are co-organized by a planning committee consisting of the Hyogo Business & Cultural Center, the Consulate General of Japan in Seattle, the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington, and the Washington Association of Teachers of Japanese.
This year, we also welcomed three esteemed professors of Japanese from Eastern Washington University, Western Washington University, and Everett Community College to join our planning committee.
A special thank you to our sponsors this year, who made these events possible:
Japan Business Association of Seattle
Japan Foundation Los Angeles
Temple University, Japan Campus
Gobo Enterprises
Kinokuniya Bookstore, Seattle