International Journal of Education

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the global digital economy and the deepening of Sino-Japanese economic and trade cooperation, there is an increasingly urgent demand for interdisciplinary talents equipped with Japanese language proficiency, business literacy, and digital skills. In response to prevalent issues in current Japanese major cultivation in colleges and universities—such as the disconnection between curriculum content and industry needs, insufficient practical teaching scenarios, and a lack of interdisciplinary integration—this paper proposes and implements a digitally-empowered "Japanese + Business" interdisciplinary talent cultivation model, based on the teaching reform practices at East University of Heilongjiang. Guided by competency-based outcomes, the model integrates language skills, business knowledge, and digital literacy through four key approaches: restructuring the curriculum system, innovating the practical teaching system, establishing interdisciplinary collaboration mechanisms, and implementing digital platform support. Practice has demonstrated that this model effectively enhances students' contextualized language application ability, digital business operation skills, and intercultural professional competence, offering a referential example for alleviating regional shortages of Japanese-related business talents and promoting the reform of applied foreign language education. For future improvement, it is essential to deepen school-enterprise cooperation, incorporate industry certification standards into the curriculum, and establish a long-term tracking and evaluation mechanism to continuously optimize talent cultivation outcomes.

Digital empowerment; Japanese + Business; Interdisciplinary talent; Cultivation model; Teaching reform