For Japanese teachers abroad
You can use any worksheet on this site in your classroom tomorrow, for free, in your students' first language. No registration, no watermarks, no “teacher accounts”.
Why this exists for you
Most printable Japanese worksheets are English-only. If you teach Japanese in Lagos, Jakarta, Hanoi, or Lima, your students do double the work — they decode the instructions in English, then learn the Japanese. Japaneseness removes that tax: instructions in your students' language, content in Japanese, no signup wall.
What's ready right now
- 50 hiragana worksheets — trace, recognize, write
- 50 katakana worksheets — same structure
- 80 N5 kanji worksheets — one per kanji, with on/kun readings + 2 example words + tracing grid
- 20 N5 grammar worksheets — particles, です/ます, adjective conjugation, counters
Total: 200 PDFs per language, currently in English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Yorùbá. All licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
How to use them
- Pick a category (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, Grammar).
- Click the language switcher (top right) to match your classroom.
- Click any worksheet → PDF opens → print or share digitally.
- Want to bulk-download? Each category has an “all worksheets” ZIP coming soon.
Modify them — that's the point
The CC BY-SA license means you can edit any worksheet to match your curriculum. The original LaTeX source is on GitHub. If you can't use LaTeX, just print the PDF, write on it, scan it — that's still perfectly within the license.
Help us reach more teachers
If this saves you 10 minutes a week, please:
- Tell one other Japanese teacher about this site.
- If you're a native speaker of Bahasa Indonesia or Yorùbá, help review the auto-translated instructions.
- Tell us which language we should add next via GitHub Discussions.
Contact
Email: hello@japaneseness.com (note: this address starts working once DNS finishes propagating). For technical issues: open an issue on GitHub.