English is used as working language among non-native speakers. Establishing mutual language learning alliances at government level will help in avoiding one-way linguistic shifts and help to maintain balance between languages and nations. On the other hand, there is a school of thought that says that one cannot live in Japan without the knowledge of English language at a certain level as Japanese language has loaned many of its words from English. It would now definitely be difficult for people of older age to understand the language.
Although Japan does not have any official statement regarding national language in its constitution, the concept of national language implied Japanese as national language in the society. The policy regarding the so called national language deals with designing of curriculum in compulsory education and orthography. In the modern world of innovation, IT and internet has opened a number of options that have simplified the concept of learning foreign languages.