In the fiscal year 2021, the market size of the interpretation or translation business in Japan reached around 268 billion Japanese yen. The market for foreign language classes for grown-ups followed with about 172 billion yen. That year, the overall language business market scale was approximately 782 billion yen.
Language business market size in Japan in fiscal year 2021, by category
(in billion Japanese yen)
fiscal year 2021; the Japanese fiscal year starts on April 1 of the stated year and ends on March 31 of the following year
Special properties
based on the sales of businesses
Supplementary notes
*Preschools such as kindergartens or nursery schools that educate and take care of children only in English.
**Correspondence education market encompasses language classes and courses in which assignments using paper medium are corrected through correspondence. This market excludes those that do not correct assignments.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.70 U.S. dollars or 0.64 euros as of August 2023. Values have been rounded.
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Yano Research. (August 25, 2022). Language business market size in Japan in fiscal year 2021, by category (in billion Japanese yen) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1199548/japan-language-business-market-size-by-category/
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