For illustrator and fiber artist Tomoko Kubo, the hiragana lettering system sparked a playful, ongoing series of embroideries ...

From director Ema Ryan Yamazaki comes the documentary The Making of a Japanese. Following the students of an elementary ...

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It's a cold and drizzly October day, but the atmosphere is warm and lively inside the second-grade classroom at Takasaki ...

As part of the celebrations of our 125th anniversary, we welcomed past exchange students from China, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand to be panelists at an international symposium. The theme ...

Major League Baseball returned to the Tokyo Dome for the first time since 2019 with the Chicago Cubs’ two-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. For the Cubs, the Tokyo Series provided a ...

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Fishing for shinko, which are baby ikanago sand eels, began in the Harima-nada Sea in Hyogo Prefecture on March 12. Shinko, about 6 centimeters in length, were landed, and eight baskets each ...

Rei Shimada smiles with his favorite tools in his hands in the Osaka Prefecture city of Sakai's Kita Ward on March 2, 2025. (Mainichi/Tatsu Shingu) SAKAI, Osaka -- A third grader in this western ...

In a Japanese survey, 83.7% of teens aged 15 to 18 recognized child suicide as a social problem, while only 62.0% of older people did so. The number of suicides by schoolchildren has remained high ...

Despite decades of progress, child labor remains deeply embedded in global supply chains, with millions of children engaged in hazardous and exploitative work to produce everyday goods. The scope of ...