Japan had about 3.76 million foreign residents at the end of last year, according to the Immigration Services Agency. That number is up by about 1.64 million over the past 10 years, with the ...

More and more university students are teaching children with foreign roots the Japanese language, and working to create ...

Kumamoto city’s board of education is considering the unprecedented measure of installing cameras in classrooms to prevent ...

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

A complaint by a PTA member at an elementary school in this west Japan city led to the association's dissolution in 2020 and ...

Superintendent Michelle Whitney said the Yamate exchange and the district’s Japanese language classes are just two programs ...

English is a mandatory subject in Japan. Students begin learning it in elementary school, often by the 3rd grade. By ...

This is what its like to spend the night in an abandoned Japanese Elementary school tucked into the mountains of Shikoku, ...