A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both domestic and overseas audiences.

A nation respectful of centuries-old traditions, Japan is also the well-spring of the world’s future. The high-speed train, the Walkman and humanoid robots are just a few Japanese inventions that have ...

The policy debate over free high school tuition is drawing considerable attention in Japan. Compulsory education ends in junior high school but the high school enrolment rate already reached nearly 98 ...

Filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki offers a unique lens to this question by playing observer to the Japanese education system, carefully uncovering the cultural intricacies that define what it truly means to ...

How have ideologies about language in the US led to the suppression of Japanese heritage language education? In a 1919 letter regarding the annual Federal Survey of Education, Superintendent of Public ...

TOKYO – Private-sector members of the Japanese government’s advisory panel urged on April 27 a review of the country’s education system, proposing shifting the focus from memorisation and correct ...

For six years I lived with my grandparents in Okinawa for a couple of months. I learned so much about music when I was in school in Japan. I think a mix of both educational systems would be ideal. For ...