While almost 100 local governments in Japan give subsidies to North Korean schools in their areas, these schools, in turn, teach anti-Japan curriculums.
The Japan Teachers' Union undermines the nation — and our children's future — when it encourages members to teach falsehoods, even China's propaganda line.
Universities, and the national and local governments, must flexibly support students disrupted by the earthquakes who dream of going on to higher education.
Coming of Age Day is officially meant to celebrate young people who now realize that they have become adults and are committed to surviving on their...
Tokyo Updates introduces this miniature museum that entertains while kids and classes of all ages have fun learning about the environment and SDGs.
These 19th-century trailblazers from Japan, India, and Syria inspired future generations of women to shatter glass ceilings in male-dominated fields.
Students needing remedial Japanese language support are over six times more likely to drop out of high school, with only 53.8% advancing to higher education.
Finding Japanese history books of the 1990s trapped in debunked postwar theories, author and historian Nobukatsu Fujioka vowed to see the changes through.
Japan welcomes foreign students, but a better approach would be to clarify the country's goals and improve the quality of education for all students.
Former PM Yoshihide Suga reflects on Shinzo Abe, the transformative legacy he left postwar Japan, and shares his thoughts about carrying that legacy forward.
What does this law mean, and what are the implications of the LGBTQ legislation in Japan? Does it have a future? Take a look with us.
More than 8,000 non-Japanese children are not attending school. Local governments need to develop additional measures to close the education gap.