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  • 7 - English in Japan

  • from I.II East Asia
  • General editor Raymond Hickey, University of Limerick
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge History of the English Language
    Published online:
    18 April 2026
    Print publication:
    07 May 2026, pp 202-228

  • Summary

    The current chapter explores English in Japan from four perspectives: (i) Japan’s sociopolitical history, which explains how English first entered the country in the early seventeenth century; (ii) Japan’s history of English language education, which presents a vexed problem; (iii) English loanwords that have entered the Japanese lexicon and which are divided into “pure” and “creative” borrowings; and (iv) the English used by Japanese speakers. The conclusion draws attention to the creativity of L2 users.