Lecture.
The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 6 sections.
All of them are open.
The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
3.68
Average grade awarded in JAPAN 1. Not a student rating: this is what
the grades were.
The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.026.
In the A range
The share who got an A minus or better: A+, A or A minus, out of every letter grade awarded in this course. Pass/no pass outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure.
80%
of the 577 letter grades
D, F or W
The share who finished with a D or an F, or withdrew. The closest thing here to a difficulty signal: it counts the people the course went badly for, which an average grade hides. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure, so a no-pass is not in it either.
1.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
The share who took this pass/no pass rather than for a letter grade. A high number usually means it is popular as a GE with people protecting an average. These students are excluded from the figure at the top of this block.
11%
86% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 577 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025.
Every instructor is pooled here.
›iWhat is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.60 to 3.80.
Historical grades for KAWANISHI, YUMIKO, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
A+
7 · 11.7%
A
31 · 51.7%
A-
5 · 8.3%
B+
4 · 6.7%
B
6 · 10.0%
B-
2 · 3.3%
C+
1 · 1.7%
C
1 · 1.7%
C-
1 · 1.7%
D
2 · 3.3%
P
5 of 70
NP
3 of 70
S
2 of 70
Percentages are of the 60 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and satisfactory (S).
›iHow the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a
4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers
reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the
department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather
than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews
written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets.
That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews
linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer.
A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Japanese to qualify for more advanced courses. Introduction to modern Japanese with attention to conversation, grammar, and written forms. Conversation drill based on material covered in class. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 6 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
REQUIRED: SEE http://www.alc.ucla.edu/placement-exams/ FOR MANDATORY ENROLLMENT RULES, INCLUDING PLACEMENT TESTS, FOR ALL JAPANESE LANGUAGE COURSES. ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS: Limited spaces are reserved in language courses for students taking the placement examination; students must contact the department to be enrolled. Upper-division content courses are limited to departmental majors/minors on the priority and first enrollment passes. All other students may enroll after second pass begins. Seats are held for entering students who enroll through New Student Orientation sessions beginning July 2, 2026. New student restrictions will be lifted on September 15, 2026 at 8 a.m.
Registrar's Class notes.
Oldest reading: 3 days ago.
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Eligibility details need rechecking. Open section details
5 seats left.20 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
5 seats left.20 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
10 seats left.15 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
12 seats left.13 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
6 seats left.19 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
7 seats left.18 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections:
between 19 and
96 a term
over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently
19 in Fall 2025.
That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking JAPAN 1 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
No student reviews are available to read on dibs for this course yet. Took it? Tell the next person what helped, what was hard, and how you spent your time.
Looking for more perspectives?
External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
This course runs 6 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
›iWhat a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when
dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that
has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three
readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 6.
enrolled
20 of 25 · 5 left
readings only
27cap 252012
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 06:151 Oct 21:22 · 4 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 471. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 448 of 1087 plotted.20 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 4 hours ago, with 5 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 21:22, 14 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 471 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 07:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 448 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 6.
enrolled
20 of 25 · 5 left
readings only
27cap 252012
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 06:151 Oct 21:22 · 4 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 471. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 448 of 1087 plotted.20 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 4 hours ago, with 5 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 21:22, 14 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 471 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 07:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 448 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 2 seats.
enrolled
15 of 25 · 10 left
readings only
27cap 251512
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 06:151 Oct 21:22 · 4 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 471. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 448 of 1087 plotted.15 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 4 hours ago, with 10 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 21:22, 17 to 15. dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 471 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 07:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 448 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 5 seats.
enrolled
13 of 25 · 12 left
readings only
27cap 25139
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 06:151 Oct 21:22 · 4 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 471. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 448 of 1087 plotted.13 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 4 hours ago, with 12 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 21:22, 18 to 13. dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 471 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 07:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 448 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 4.
enrolled
19 of 25 · 6 left
readings only
27cap 251913
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 06:151 Oct 21:22 · 4 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 471. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 448 of 1087 plotted.19 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 4 hours ago, with 6 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 21:22, 15 to 19. dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 471 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 07:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 448 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 3.
enrolled
18 of 25 · 7 left
readings only
201814
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 06:151 Oct 21:22 · 4 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 471. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 448 of 1087 plotted.18 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 4 hours ago, with 7 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 21:22, 15 to 18. dibs read 168 of the 639 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 471 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 07:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 448 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
›iHow readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.