As a result of а discipline study, the student must be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
Identify patterns of Japanese social behavior; identify patterns of formal and informal language usage during the academic, business and personal communication; be able to translate, using Ukrainian language means, benefactive and passive constructions; Know the characteristics of the social structure of Japanese society and communication rules associated with it; be able to interpret and translate idioms and phraseological units, reflecting the realities of Japanese life, history, social relations; know the characteristics of Japanese communication with foreigners; to understand the manners, customs, art, religious items of Shinto and Buddhism.

Prerequisites: “Modern Japanese” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Corequisites: “Modern Japanese” Part 5; “Stylistics of Modern Japanese” Part 1

Society and language of modern Japan. Historical background. Hierarchy. Formal Language: varieties of polite language. The informal language. Strategy of rudeness. Brutality. The problem of interpretation and translation of phraseological units, related to social orders in Japan and Japanese life. Translation of scientific and journalistic style articles.

1. Modern Japanese for University Students, part II. Japanese Department, International Christian University, Tokyo, 1988.
2. An English Dictionary of Japanese Culture, Yuhikaku Publiching Co, Tokyo, 1986.
3. An English Dictionary of Japanese Ways of Thinking, Yuhikaku Publiching Co, Tokyo, 1989.
4. Takie Sugiyama Lebra. Japanese Patterns of Behaviour. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. 448 p.
5. Медведів А.Р. Особливості перекладу японських науково-технічних текстів українською мовою: навч. посіб./ А.Р. Медведів. - К.: Видавничий дім Дмитра Бураго, 2012. - 216 с.
6. В.Л. Пирогов Словник японських прислів'їв і приказок з відповідниками шістьма мовами / Автор-упорядник, вступна стаття: В.Л. Пирогов. - Х.:Торсінг плюс, 2009. - 272 с.
7. Комісаров К.Ю. Теоретична граматика японської мови. - Том2. Синтакис. - К.: Видавничий дім Дмитра Бураго, 2010. - 296 с.
8. NIHONGO e ? – Portal for Learning Japanese http://nihongo-e-na.com/jpn/
9. Dictionaries.

Monitoring: listening, monologue and dialogic speaking, reading, writing. Final test.
Final assessment: examination.

The distribution of points in 100-point scale
Monitoring:
Classroom work (20):
Listening 5
Reading 5
Speaking 5
Writing 5
Individual work (25):
Individual written translation task 25
Total for CW: 45
Examination assessment(55):
Written component 40
Oral component 15
Total for discipline 100