1) Japan's population is decreasing, with the population of those aged 65 and older increasing. The ratio of productive population is declining while the elderly population rises. 2) Japan ranks 26th out of 31 countries on the TOEFL exam, particularly low in speaking scores in Asia. Improving English skills, especially conversation, can help in finding jobs and communicating internationally. 3) The document discusses ways to improve English skills in Japan, such as increasing exposure and practice speaking without fear of mistakes, and seeing English as a dialect rather than a totally foreign language.

1. A Viewpoint on Enhancing the
value of corporate Japan and
discussing a current problem
s1210134 Shota Saito

2. Ageing demographics①
• The total population of Japan is 127,298,000
people(about 100 million).
• It is decreased 217,000 people (0.17%) in
comparison with the last year.
• The population of Japan greatly decreases
for 3 consecutive years.

3. Ageing demographics②
• The ratio of juvenile population becomes
12.9% and is the lowest ever.
• The ratio of productive population (15-64
years old) becomes 62.1% and, after 1992
(69.8%), continues decreasing.
→One of four people becomes the population
65 years old or older.

4. Ageing demographics③
• It becomes Okinawa (17.6%) that a ratio of
juvenile population (0-14 years old) is the
highest.
• It becomes Tokyo (66.8%) that a ratio of
productive population (15-64 years old) is the
highest.
•A ratio of population being the highest 65
years old or older Akita (31.6%)

5. TOEFL①
• The TOEFL consists of reading, listening,
speaking, and writing.
• Japan is at the 26th place out of 31
countries and the low position in the Asian
area.
•The speaking score becomes last in an Asian
area.

6. TOEFL②
• When we find a job when there is TOEFL, it
becomes advantageous.
• The skill of the TOEFL has logical speech and
becomes convenient when I speak it with an
overseas person.

7. TOEFL③
• TOEFL stands in the way as the first hurdle of
the thing wanting to be studying abroad.
• It is adopted in a graduate school entrance
examination of Japan, and there is the
movement that is going to be used as a
substitute of the English examination of the
examination for university.

8. Opinion and Thought
・There are few people having a skill to speak
English in Japan.
・It is a weak point of Japanese people, and
sense of speed peculiar to English becomes
the big wall in learning English conversation

9. Opinion and Thought
・There is little time to get close to English.
・We arrange the opportunity to talk with the
acquaintance of the foreigner and see the
foreign film without subtitles and begin it
because it increases time to touch English

10. Opinion and Thought
・There are many people falling silent for fear
of a mistake.
・If it wants to improve English conversation, it
is important to abandon "the shyness to being
wrong".

11. Opinion and Thought
・For a Japanese, the consciousness "that
English is "a totally different language" and
must study" is strong.
・It is important that I arrest you for a sense as
English is called "a dialect" to break the
obstacle of the heart to English.

12. Competing with China and South Korea
in the neighbourhood
・Under the influence that monetary easing
was carried out in Japan, it fell to 100 yen =
4.9196 yuan at one time on 2nd, and streamed
down it when I recorded the minimum
standard on since August 31, 1994, and an
effect has begun to appear in Japan which
aimed at the exit from deflation by weak yen.

13. Competing with China and South Korea
in the neighbourhood
・Because weak yen progresses, the shopping in
Japan of the Chinese tourist has a big merit,
but means that pressure increases for the
management of the Chinese export company.
Reference: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?
a=20150615-00000015-scn-bus_all

14. Competing with China and South Korea
in the neighbourhood
・Ｔhe international competition ranking
synthesis order of Korea declined 1 with the
26th place out of 144 countries from last year.
Japan becomes the sixth place with this WEF
international competitiveness.
Reference: http://japanese.joins.
com/article/648/189648.html

15. Competing with China and South Korea
in the neighbourhood
・The liquid crystal display industry was
monopoly of the Japanese maker, but
blundered, and water was greatly opened now
by Korea, Taiwan where I entered in the late
1990s.
Reference: http://www.rieti.go.
jp/jp/publications/rd/014.html