All the schools in Japan have a classroom duties system or "Toban Katsudo" in Japanese for conducting activities in school ...

The correct answer rate for the Japanese language section for junior high school third-graders fell to its lowest since the ...

TOKYO -- Japan's education ministry has decided to implement a new "school affairs support system" that allows teachers to unitarily handle work such as absence notifications and managing grades ...

Thousands of Japanese children in Tokyo are skipping the traditional school system — and heading instead to international classrooms where lessons are in foreign languages and curriculums are ...

A new system to accredit Japanese language schools would see the education minister authorizing the schools, according to a draft plan the Cultural Affairs Agency presented on May 31 to a group of ...

Randoseru, the traditional Japanese school bag, dates back to the Meiji era and symbolizes discipline and educational growth.For Japanese kids, the ra ...

Created 75 years ago for the country’s prestigious high school baseball tournament, Yuji Koseki’s “The Crown Will Shine on You” stirs memories as it inspires new ones.

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 system ...

Japan’s education system, admired worldwide for its rigor, is also under intense pressure, shaping students in ways that sometimes do more harm than good. Beneath the surface of discipline and ...

The system is currently applied in 55 Japanese schools in Egypt where 16,000 students are taught the Egyptian curriculum together with Tokkatsu.