The rise of online institutions at the high school level is gaining momentum in Japan. They reduce educational disparities by ...

Thousands of Japanese children in Tokyo are skipping the traditional school system — and heading instead to international ...

TOKYO: Without serious efforts to tackle global warming, students in the 2060s or later may no longer be able to engage in ...

Maki Suto’s background made her seem destined to teach children in Japan. But her aspirations always took her mind to faraway ...

After the bursting of Japan’s economic bubble in 1991, the country went into a long slump. The government started administrative and fiscal reforms to reduce expenditures, and school lunches were not ...

The case was one of two knife attacks targeting Japanese nationals in China last year. In September, a 10-year-old Japanese ...

OTSU -- The first "democratic school" in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, opened here this month, amid a growing trend in the ...