Japanese people study foreign languages to show off their intelligence, not just for communication with native speakers. The history of Japanese contacts with foreign countries explains this attitude. Since the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the Japanese government studied and borrowed the political, economic and social systems of Britain, Germany and France. Many intelligent people favored reading the literature of the Germans, Russians, French and Chinese like European people studying Latin.
For these reasons, Japanese people study foreign languages to increase their own intelligence and for their own cultural cultivation. According to former Japan Prime Minister Abe (2004), to study a foreign language is a very high level of subject that reaches beyond communication with native speakers of the language.
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