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.

The Japanese School of Guam on Sunday announced that it will officially adopt a new name starting in April 2025, after careful consideration and input from the school community. The school will be ...

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

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese parents of the growing number of children attending international school in Japan often feel overwhelmed due to a lack of support, which may hinder their ability to fully ...

TOKYO -- Just ahead of hay fever season's full onset, a Japan pharmaceutical company has released survey results showing that nearly half of elementary and junior high school students in the ...

Jan. 28 (Jiji Press)--The western Japan city of Settsu ... “randoseru” traditional school backpack for free to all children getting enrolled in elementary schools in the city, an initiative ...

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. What we know about the passenger plane collision ...

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

A Chinese district court is set to sentence a man next week over a knife attack in June last year, in which a Japanese woman and her child, and a Chinese woman were attacked, sources at Japan's ...

In late December Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi visited China, where he took part in a series of meetings with his counterpart Wang Yi and other Chinese officials. The trip gave the ...

In 1911, 13-year-old Juhei Kono arrived in Tacoma from Japan. His memoir is the inspiration for "Voyages," a new album from ...

The life-preserving backpack is the brainchild of newspaper delivery agent Joji Shimizu who was left dumbfounded by the loss of life at a public elementary school in northeastern Japan as a ...