Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, I attended a public elementary school in a Tokyo suburb. As an American, it was one of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Japanese education system is facing a crisis. Its elementary and junior high school teachers work the longest hours in the world, according to a global survey. But that effort comes with a cost ...