About Easy JLPT News
Readings about life in Japan in easy Japanese, with furigana, vocabulary and a quiz for JLPT N5–N3.
What this is
Each edition takes one story from a published Japanese news source and rewrites it in easy Japanese for one JLPT level. Every edition carries furigana you can switch on or off, a vocabulary list with readings and meanings in English, Vietnamese and Indonesian, JLPT-style reading questions with explanations, and a review deck you can keep in your browser or export to Anki. Nothing is behind a login.
Where the news comes from
Articles are rewritten from Japanese news published by government ministries and agencies — the Digital Agency, 政府広報オンライン and the Japan Meteorological Agency among them. Every article names its source and links to the page it was written from, in the byline and again at the foot of the article, so you can read the original. The grammar section is written against the JLPT specification and is fixed content, not regenerated per visit.
Editorial policy
Editions are produced by machine from a published Japanese article and reviewed against that article sentence by sentence before publication. They are study material, not a certified translation, and not a guide to what will appear on the JLPT. If something looks wrong it may well be — please tell us. Vietnamese and Indonesian translations are marked on the page when a native speaker has not reviewed them.
Corrections
If you find a mistake — a wrong reading, a wrong meaning, a quiz answer that is not right — write to chiaki.obayashi@giga-craft.com with the page address. Corrections are made on the page itself, and when the meaning of the text changes the date and what changed are recorded on this page.
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