First things first. Did you know that high school (for students between 15 and 18 years of age) is not mandatory in Japan?
Japan has Asia’s best-structured technical education system. As the country’s workforce shrinks, so-called super science high schools and new funding programs are intended to increase the ...
Randoseru, the traditional Japanese school bag, dates back to the Meiji era and symbolizes discipline and educational growth.For Japanese kids, the ra ...
The only experience I have with the American public school system is when I was a student in the '70s and '80s in west-central Florida. My experience with the Japanese school system is from having ...
This system is debatable ... an 8% rise since 2013. If Japanese schools want to educate their youth to be internationally competitive, they should provide the more intangible benefits of ...
Associate Professor Yoshimi Kojima of Aichi Shukutoku University says the main reason foreign children don't attend schools is because Japan's compulsory education system does not cover foreign ...
Teachers at a school in southern Japan are being mocked and condemned after a 14-year-old girl was punished for plucking her eyebrows. The student at a junior high school in the town of Kurume, in ...
The Japanese Tokkatsu educational system is to be applied in public schools nationwide. Last week, Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdel-Latif said the ministry aims to ...
Schools across Japan remain closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some say it is an opportunity to make a foundational change to the country's school system. The matter was taken up at an online ...
A British school operator in Kodaira in western ... through second-year students in junior high schools in the Japanese school system). Up to 950 students through 13th grade (third-year students ...