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

The number of children determined not to be attending elementary or junior high schools across Japan has risen to a record ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Japanese government has awarded PHP12.8 million in grants for constructing a school building in Pura, Tarlac and a youth ...

Teachers tell KPRC 2 that two administrators at Houston ISD’s Harvard Elementary School were seen being escorted from the ...

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