<p>Japanese English ranges from fantastic to pitiful. Kind of like American Spanish.</p>
<p>Yes, most Japanese will learn it from middle school (or even elementary school) through high school. Very few will retain much of it past secondary school. However, it’s not because of any inherent “closed-mindedness” per se, but instead the lack of real world use. </p>
<p>Discounting Japan, as alero86 did, is somewhat foolish. Japan remains, to this day, the second largest economy in the world. Furthermore, their finance sector is growing fairly rapidly relative to other countries, and what was once a barely nascent financial sector is starting to take off. However, whether or not the banking reforms do allow private firms to really leverage the Japanese economy like the American financial firms leverage the American economy remains to be seen.</p>
<p>Still, it’s a language spoken by 100 million of the world’s richest people, and that’s not changing anytime soon.</p>