As Japanese society increasingly gets global, a new study finds that its education system has not kept pace. Students with ...

When my son was in elementary school in Tokyo, he had to weed the school grounds, cook a full-course meal and swim for more than an hour in a jellyfish-strewn ocean. I’m from Japan and went to ...

What makes Japanese people distinctively Japanese? For me, the key lies in what we are taught during our elementary school years. Children as young as 6 are given the responsibility to clean their ...