Japan's education ministry has found that bullying at schools across the country hit a record high in fiscal 2024 for the ...

Japan's education ministry has decided to notify school boards nationwide of steps to prevent wild bears from entering ...

The Liberal Democratic Party, the Japan Innovation Party and Komeito also agreed to raise the upper limit for existing ...

The power of artificial intelligence is being put to use in Japan for diverse purposes, from helping children at risk of skipping school to teaching English conversation, and even keeping the stories ...

A nation respectful of centuries-old traditions, Japan is also the well-spring of the world’s future. The high-speed train, the Walkman and humanoid robots are just a few Japanese inventions that have ...

Japan's new education minister Yohei Matsumoto was one backer of a 2007 movie that cast doubt on the factuality of the ...

The administrator in chief of Korea University, Kwon Mun Ju, is sitting in the middle of a row of empty armchairs under framed pictures of Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, and his father, the ...

January and February decides the fate of Japanese students preparing for university entrance exams. This year’s high schoolers have been through a particularly stressful period because of policy ...

This past fall I was part of a group of educators who were awarded fellowships to travel to Japan and learn about the country’s education system. During my three-week stay in Tokyo and the southern ...

The Japanese government has pushed through controversial changes to the country’s education law, winding back the clock to the state indoctrination that characterised the militarist regimes of the ...

In 1985, Education Week Staff Writer Sheppard Ranbom spent three months in Japan investigating its educational system and the increasingly loud calls for reform there. Just two years earlier, a panel ...