100+ Free Hyogo Entrance Japanese Practice Questions

Partly, and this is a Hyogo peculiarity worth knowing. The official paper is written in Japanese and answered on a printed answer sheet, and Hyogo is known nationally for using very few free-writing items: roughly 70-80% of the kokugo marks come from symbol-selection (kigo sentaku) items where you choose a lettered option. So the selection habit does transfer. What this bank does not reproduce is the official layout — Hyogo's option sets are not limited to four choices, its stems and source passages are in Japanese, and its passages are long (the expository text alone averages about 2,400 characters). The MCQs here are an English-language study adaptation, not an official translation, past-paper reprint, or format simulation, so keep practising with full-length Japanese passages and the short written answers, including kanji writing.

Kokugo is a Japanese-language subject: the tested skills — kanji readings, particle choice, classical grammar, reading Japanese prose — exist only in Japanese. This bank preserves the Japanese words, passages, and answer choices that are the skill being tested, and explains everything in English, following the same approach as bilingual kokugo study guides.

The kokugo paper is a single 50-minute exam scored out of 100 points, sat on March 12, 2026 in the Reiwa 8 general selection (9:10-10:00). The five subjects total 500 points, which are halved to 250 and added to the 250-point junior-high report card (naishinten) for a 500-point selection score in which the academic test and the report card carry equal weight (1:1).

Recommendation and special selection was held February 16, 2026 (some schools February 17) with results February 20 at 14:00. General selection applications were accepted February 25-27, 2026 with application-change through March 4 at 12:00 and the JPY 2,200 fee paid with Hyogo prefectural revenue stamps or online settlement. The academic examination was held on March 12, 2026 (Thursday), with selection results announced on March 19, 2026 (Thursday) at 10:00.

The paper covers the 2017 MEXT junior-high kokugo curriculum: modern literary and informational reading, writing and language knowledge (kanji, vocabulary, grammar, keigo), classical Japanese (koten) including basic auxiliary verbs and kakari-musubi, and kanbun fundamentals such as kaeriten and kundoku. This bank distributes its 100 items across those five areas.

Most figures on this page describe the Reiwa 8 cycle, whose academic examination was sat on March 12, 2026. For the Reiwa 9 (2027 entrance) cycle, the Board has published the schedule: recommendation and special selection on February 16, 2027 (some schools February 17) with results February 22, 2027, and the general-selection academic examination on March 11, 2027 (Thursday) with results March 18, 2027 (Thursday). The five-subject, 50-minute, 100-point structure and the equal-weight (1:1) selection method have been stable, but confirm the current year's application windows, fees, and selection ratios on the Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education's own pages before relying on them.