The Internship programs consist of 2 stages - intensive language acquisition and work placement.

a) Intensive Language Acquisition: Participants will study conversational Japanese for 6 or 8 weeks on campus. For the study component you have the choice of either

• Option A: 12 private classes per week or
• Option B: 23 group classes per week (SILAC) or
• Option C: 28 group classes per week (Acceleration Format 2 - Option C)

b) Work Placement: Each work placement is for 4 or 6 weeks. Only one intern is placed into each workplace. Each workplace is within the Okazaki city limits or accessible by public transport from Okazaki. All work placements are for unpaid positions. Interns are only placed into companies or organizations that have been thoroughly checked by officials from the Hattori Foundation.

Internship program participants receive a small discount on their accommodation and their public transport fares are subsidized by Yamasa if the return fare per day exceeds 1000 yen. (ie Yamasa will reimburse interns for any expenditure on fares exceeding this amount). It is not possible to do the work placement only or combine the work placement component with a different program.