In a question to elementary and junior high school students ... a fundamental review of public education is required in the ...

Students in Japan learn to follow rigid routines, focus on test scores, and often sacrifice their own interests to meet these ...

The judges also felt it would help children become “more courageous”, as randoseru (sturdy backpacks with rounded lids like ...

A record 346,482 children in Japan were absent from school for 30 days or more at national, public and private elementary and ...

As the number of truant students continues to rise, the Education Ministry aims to secure more support personnel.

Some 346,482 elementary and junior high school students in Japan were classified as truant in the last school year, marking ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

Bob Hope Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Tameko Kekiwi, left, works with Futenma Daini Elementary School teacher Kotono Arasaki to prepare a lesson at her school on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, on ...

Miss Haruko Ota, a third grade teacher, peeks over the shoulder of Brenda Sheets, 10, daughter of Master Sgt. and Mrs. W. G.

The U.S. Army in Japan community wrapped up another successful Red Ribbon Week with senior leaders speaking directly to ...

Japanese Ambassador Endo Kazuya on Thursday signed the grant ... grant contract for constructing a one-story six-classroom ...

Bored of the Midwest? Then perhaps it’s time for a little vacation — and what better destination is there than Japan? It ...