"Sometimes I need more help," she confesses, adding that standing up in front of the class is when she feels most ...

The one- or two-week experiences would have sent roughly 60 students to Costa Rica, Ghana, Japan ... "The school was just very worried about the probably remote, but still potential possibility ...

The Japanese government, on its part, has implemented policies aimed at bridging the urban-rural gap. One of China's most pressing economic ... ensuring that people in even remote areas have ...

My manager asked me to send it via fax as if it were the most natural thing in ... including elementary schools still using ...

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been ...

The One-Child, One-Egg initiative, launched in February, is designed to combat malnutrition by ensuring school children receive essential nutrients. But for students in the country’s most remote ...

National government workers currently receive ¥3,000 in remote work allowance per month. Of local governments that are not considering introducing the allowance, many said that the number of ...

This remote Indian Ocean archipelago is uninhabited by humans but provides a vital refuge for seals, albatrosses, terns, and four species of penguins. This Russian-administered Arctic archipelago ...

A team of Japanese researchers has found that a rabbit species native to remote islands in southwestern Japan grow at a significantly slower rate and reach maturity at a much later time than other ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting his 62-year-old father by throwing a TV remote control at his head, causing a laceration. According to police, the incident ...

School backpacks are seen in an unrelated photo taken in Sapporo on March 4, 2025. (Mainichi/Taichi Kaizuka) SAPPORO -- In a number of cases, children in Japan are becoming victims of sexual ...