Abstract: In the context of New Liberal Arts and big Foreign languages, cultivationg students'core literacy of Japanese is an important starting point for the deepening of Japanese education in colleges and universities. On the basis of clarifying the connotation of the core literacy of Japanese in colleges and universities, and based on the“five-in-one”analysis framework, this paper expounds the practical path for colleges and universities to improve the core literacy of Japanese talents, that is, to construct a complete training system of Japanese talents with the curriculum system of core literacy of Japanese as the starting point, innovative teaching materials as the carrier, innovative teaching methods as the means, teaching evaluation as the driving force, teachers'ability as the guarantee and the practical environment as the support. Furthermore, takinga university in Zhejiang Province as an example, this paper analyzes its basic experience in improving students' core Japanese literacy in the practice of training applied Japanese talents.

Key words: New liberal arts, Core literacy, College Japanese, “Five-in-one”, Applied Japanese talents, Empirical exploration