The Japan Times is excited to announce the second Boarding & International School Day, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. Boarding and international schools in Japan have been carving out new educational ...

After the closing, it will be integrated with Ryugasaki Elementary School. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is ...

Blackboards in Japan are typically filled with equations and kanji characters. But a group of elementary school graduates in Niigata City were surprised to see theirs become a chalky work of art.

TOKYO -- Some parents in Japan are choosing to send their children ... without ever having them attend a regular elementary school. Their choice to do so is seen as a violation of compulsory ...

A mother was stunned after finding out her son’s textbook featured JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure illustrations from Hirohiko Araki.

Shin, for the first time, is the main host! He shows what an elementary school student in Japan needs when going back to school after summer break. US freezes $2 billion in federal funding for ...

I guess it's not surprising, but it is in contrast to whole idea of Japan being ... walk to school in groups, but this isn't always helpful as we've seen many incidents of drivers plowing into the ...

Police in Goshogawara City, Aomori Prefecture, have arrested a 38-year-old unemployed woman and a 28-year-old male acquaintance on suspicion of performing indecent acts on the woman’s elementary ...

The number of people who died by suicide in Japan fell to its second ... However, the number among elementary, junior high and high school students reached a record high, highlighting growing ...

Around 10,000 foreign children of compulsory school age in Japan are not receiving a formal ... are of an age when they should be attending elementary or junior high school.

TOKYO -- The Japanese government established a new joint operations command Monday to oversee the three branches of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, aiming to ensure readiness and greater ...