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

Education minister Toshiko Abe has apologized for telling a Japanese Communist Party member during a committee meeting that ...

TOKYO -- International schools in Tokyo that follow an Indian approach are drawing more Japanese students, whose families are ...

The suspect has admitted to stabbing the girl because he had “trouble” with her. Read more at straitstimes.com.

It is not seen as something negative or to be dreaded but is viewed as an opportunity to encourage discipline and ...

Students from Seattle and Naha, Okinawa, celebrate the 50th anniversary of the cross-cultural exchange program.

Two junior high schoolers here were told the wrong pass-fail results for high school entrance exams, the local education ...

New social studies textbooks to be used by Japanese high school students starting next year contained false claims that Korea ...

In response to the rapid progress of digitalization, many of the textbooks include descriptions on information ethics and ...

While Japanese restaurants overseas continue to proliferate (According to the latest survey, there are 187,000 stores, which ...

Oshima Island, where I work, is a 25-minute ferry ride away from the Fukuoka port, has a circumference of about 15 km, and a ...