The judges also felt it would help children become “more courageous”, as randoseru (sturdy backpacks with rounded lids like ...

Miss Haruko Ota, a third grade teacher, peeks over the shoulder of Brenda Sheets, 10, daughter of Master Sgt. and Mrs. W. G.

A record 346,482 children in Japan were absent from school for 30 days or more at national, public and private elementary and ...

Students in Japan learn to follow rigid routines, focus on test scores, and often sacrifice their own interests to meet these ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

As the number of truant students continues to rise, the Education Ministry aims to secure more support personnel.

The number of truant students at elementary and junior high schools rose by some 47,000 from the previous year to a record ...

(Mainichi) MAEBASHI -- In response to a rising number of children with foreign roots, the government of this Gunma Prefecture ...

SoftBank makes investments in a variety of companies that it groups together in a series of Vision Funds. The company’s founder, Masayoshi Son, is a pioneer in technology investment in Japan. SoftBank ...

The number of suicides among elementary junior high and high school students in Japan remained alarmingly high in 2023 a government report showed T ...

Some 346,482 elementary and junior high school students in Japan were classified as truant in the last school year, marking ...

Bored of the Midwest? Then perhaps it’s time for a little vacation — and what better destination is there than Japan? It ...