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Nihongo Path is a free Japanese-learning site operated by Opusify IT Solutions. Lessons and guides can be read without an account. An account adds a personal study tracker. Using the site means accepting these terms.

You are responsible for the email address and password on your account and for what is done with it. Give accurate details, keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think someone else is using your account. One person, one account.

Use the site to learn Japanese. Do not try to break it, overload it, scrape it at a rate that affects other users, or bypass access controls. Automated access for search and AI indexing is welcome and governed by robots.txt.

Except for the third-party material described next, the lessons, exercises, questions, audio scripts and site design belong to Opusify IT Solutions. You may read them, quote short passages with a link to the source lesson, and use them for your own study. You may not republish the content as a whole or sell it.

The course is built on freely licensed Japanese language data. Word readings and meanings are taken from and checked against JMdict and KANJIDIC2, published by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A minority of the example sentences derive from the Tatoeba corpus, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Both remain the work of their contributors, and both have been adapted for this site: entries were selected, re-levelled, edited and in places rewritten. The lesson text, explanations and the remaining sentences are written for this site.

The JLPT name and test format belong to the Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services, and this site is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. The mock exams here are original practice material written for this site: they follow the published format, but they are not official tests and are not reproductions of past papers.

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The site is provided as it is. We work to keep lessons accurate and the exam facts current, and we cite the official sources for them, but we do not guarantee that any content is error-free or that studying here will produce a particular result on the JLPT. Confirm test dates, fees and formats with the official JLPT site before registering.

The site may be changed, paused or withdrawn, and accounts that break these terms may be closed. If the study tracker is ever discontinued, we will say so on the site in advance.

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Questions about these terms go to Opusify IT Solutions through its contact page. These terms are updated when the service changes; the date below is the date of the current version.