Rikho Sinurat studied Japanese at his Indonesian high school because he was a fan of the best-selling Dragon Ball and One Piece manga comics, but he continued in university for a more prosaic reason.
“I wanted to do French at university, but my parents told me there are many more Japanese companies in Indonesia, so I switched to Japanese,” says the 23-year-old, who now works in the Jakarta office of Pacific Metals, a Japanese nickel producer.
The popularity of Japanese youth culture, and resurgent investment from its companies, has propelled the number of young Indonesians studying Japanese to record levels.
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