The curriculum includes 46 alphabets, three ways of writing and more than 200 Chinese characters, but Shorecrest’s new Japanese teacher, Sachiko Smith, insists that taking her Japanese class involves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An English teacher living in Japan highlighted how Japanese schools have a very different approach to education compared to ...

Despite its low birth rates, Japan is struggling with a shortage of teachers. In Japan, a ‘teacher shortage’ is a situation in which the number of teachers assigned to schools does not meet local ...

I recently spent the day at a seminar in Tokyo where about 50 teachers from public, private and after-school programs gathered to learn how to bring curiosity and creativity into their classrooms.

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)--The Tokyo metropolitan government's board of education on Thursday drafted an outline of proposed guidelines to help school teachers respond to unreasonable demands ...