Instruments of a Beating Heart” follows a group of first graders in Japan who form an orchestra to play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” as part of a welcoming ceremony for the incoming class of 6-year-olds.

A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both ...

An elementary school here with a growing population of foreign students -- now accounting for over 40% of its roll -- has ...

American teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a ...

Japanese elementary school children in Japan have used traditional ... The institute was founded on an ideal of classroom equality and its charter stipulated that no student should be able to ...