800 in bengaluru who appear for the proficiency test most students have professional goals and less than 1 out of sheer interest about 60 are mnc professionals in japanese companies many of these employees either work with people from japan or have to relocate there for work especially engineers next are the students who have got admission to japanese universities followed by homemakers whod like to be translators or freelancers japanese story reading is a fun experience as the words are written top to bottom and the sentences are read right to left srividhya anantapadhmanaban head of languages sakuraa nihongo resource centerwith inputs from shravani bheema