Trevor Boffone was one of 31 people who were stuck in Japan and had to make a 48-hour journey home. Boffone said there are some things he would've done differently to make the long trip a bit easier.

By Nathaniel Reed For 16 years, I have worked in education in Japan -- from kindergartens to universities, conversation ...

As Japanese society increasingly gets global, a new study finds that its education system has not kept pace. Students with foreign roots face cultural and linguistic hurdles in schools that still ...

An English teacher living in Japan highlighted how Japanese schools have a very different approach to education compared to American high schools. American TikTok creator Hito Bito (@hito.bito) ...

Brianna Stultz got an offer to teach on a military base in Okinawa, Japan, and moved in December. She struggled to work with her coteacher and was ultimately fired. Despite making a friend and loving ...

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When Tomoko Nakamura entered high school in April 2024, she was confident about getting good grades, having consistently ranked in the top five in junior high school. But her problems began when she ...

A former male teacher in Nagoya was indicted Friday (Dec 5) for allegedly possessing sexually explicit images of young girls ...

“There is an old Japanese saying that to climb Fuji once is wise, to climb it twice is to proclaim oneself a fool.” This quote appeared in my Japanese guide book. It continued, “it is possible to ...

THE one thing I most insist upon — because Americans ask me, with an obviously skeptical implication, whether the Japanese spoke honestly — is that the conversations were utterly uninhibited and, ...

NEYAGAWA CITY, Japan — A 17-year-old armed with a sashimi knife stabbed a teacher to death and wounded two other adults yesterday at his former elementary school, then stood in the faculty lounge and ...