Research is lacking regarding implementing ER activities across an entire Japanese degree programme, including the feasibility of including ER from the students’ first semester of language study. This presentation will discuss how ER is being incorporated into six Japanese language courses, including from the first semester course, and what can be learnt from this trial. Major considerations included whether reading would be required or voluntary, what materials to use and how they would be provided to students, how much students would be expected to read, how to collect data, and how to determine whether they were indeed reading. We are collecting data regarding learner perceptions of attitude and language improvements resulting from doing ER, suggestions of the amount of reading that can be expected of students, as well as data regarding the pace at which they can increase their reading levels when engaged in ER over several years.