This study attempted to compare Shanghai Japanese High School students’ beliefs about Chinese as a second language (CSL) learning with their beliefs about English as a foreign language (EFL) learning, as well as to compare their use of learning strategies for both languages, and to identify the factors determining the learning strategies used in foreign language learning. The results suggest that, although high school students following the Japanese curriculum in a non-English speaking country shows stronger beliefs and more frequent use of strategies for EFL learning than for CSL learning, living experience in the country and formation of beliefs based on such experience would work as a transfer to the use of strategies for EFL learning.