The purpose of this research is to examine students' perceptions towards the use of YouTube as a teaching medium to increase students’ interest and motivation in learning Japanese. The method used is descriptive qualitative with survey techniques and literature research. The descriptive analysis is used to describe the percentage of each variable, namely the use of YouTube and Japanese students' interest and learning motivation. The results of this study indicate that YouTube offers a significant effect on students in the use of online video as a learning medium and the research findings show that the participants positively view the use of YouTube in their lessons. The result also revealed a significant increase in increasing student interest and motivation in learning Japanese. The results of this study can be an illustration to encourage students, especially in learning Japanese, to make the most of the online media or video channels on YouTube related to Japanese language learning. This research also can be an online learning system in technological development.

The purpose of this study is to explore university students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of recognizing Japanese Kanji characters by using mnemonic strategies and of understanding Kanji’s meanings. Fifty Indonesian university students majoring in Japanese Language Education participated in this study. Data were collected through an online questionnaire survey and an in-depth interview with Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) students. Drawing on the analysis of questionnaire and interview data, students reported that the use of mnemonic strategies successfully enhanced their comprehension of Japanese Kanji characters lexically and semantically. The findings also showed that the mnemonic strategy was so applicable that students could recognize Japanese Kanji characters. The use of technology also mediated the adoption of the mnemonic strategy. Thus, the implication of the study is that by using different mnemonic strategies along with the use of technology, Japanese teachers could teach Japanese Kanji characters to students whose writing systems background is other than Latin/Roman alphabet systems.

Kata kunci : SCL, metode mnemonik, teknik asosiasi, kanji dasar Abstract Application of student centered learning (SCL) through mnemonics method and associated technique in basic Kanji (Shokyu Hyouki). The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of instructional media and its influence in improving students' ability in learning basic kanji. Kanji is one important element in studying the

In the practice of implementing gender equality, education is one of the receptacles for students to comprehend the implementation of gender equality starting from a very early age. However, many hindrances happened upon the implementation of gender equality on students, especially on elementary school students. The purpose of this research is as stimulation to implement the social reality which became an issue to role holders in implementing character building-related gender equality by observing Japan’s implementation of gender education which can be a reference to look at. The research covering this topic has been done by many. One of them almost publishes a similar topic which was conducted in 2012 which discussed Gender Equality on Education at PPL PGSD-partnership Elementary School. Therefore, the writers try to research this by adding new formula by comparing discoveries in Indonesian and Japanese Elementary School. This research is a combination of descriptive-contrastive methods, historical research, data collecting by interviews on elementary school students, and supported by a few journals which discuss Japanese character building. The results of the research show that Indonesia does not fully enforce gender equality in the education system. This is proven from the daily classroom cleaning schedule which is inversely proportional to Japan’s character building that enforces gender equality, starting from the act of classroom cleaning modelled after the tokkatsu model or educational model. Hopefully, the upcoming researches which study these issues can be a literature study of social symptoms which can meet the solution so this issue can be resolved.

It is commonly assumed and claimed that learners with no prior knowledge of Chinese characters often find it more difficult to learn kanji than learners from character backgrounds (Ishida, 1986; Machida, 2000; Toyoda, 1995). It makes kanji being a burden or something dreaded by Indoneian JFL. According to Hayashi & Yano (1994), Kanji has a lot of characters and the foreigners who do not use to handling such large sets of character in everyday life is not used to it, so it's hard to remember. This research is to answer the question about the difficulty of Indonesian JFL to memorize the meaning of events in Japanese kanji. This study uses mix method design with 30 Indonesian JFL the second semester students of Japanese education department Indonesia University of Education. The results of the analysis revealed that leaning Kanji through mnemonic method seemed to help students to understand kanji's meaning and the way to read it. The statement was also supported by the students' response saying that the learning process with Mnemonic method was interesting and enjoyable.