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 coolest experiences of my life. Jen Adams/BuzzFeed For some context, I ...
In 1985, Education Week Staff Writer Sheppard Ranbom spent three months in Japan investigating its educational system and the increasingly loud calls for reform there. Just two years earlier, a panel ...
STORY: These 15-year-olds are the only students left at their school in the remote Japanese village of Ten-ei. They'll also be the last ever. Aoi Hoshi and Eita Sato are preparing to graduate. When ...
SASEBO, Japan – With the snip of a ribbon, a newly constructed and partially renovated E.J. King Middle High School was officially declared ready to teach during a ceremony here on Commander Fleet ...
KIMITSU, Japan, April 30 (Reuters) - With his black uniform jacket slung rakishly over his shoulders and his feet propped up on a Japanese school desk as he held court with his crew, Jason Wu was ...
Arguments about how to present history never seem to die. Take Japan: Regularly a site for heated battles about textbooks and the best way to grapple with its military and imperial past, it's now a ...
TUALATIN, Ore. — On Saturdays, Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin shifts gears, turning from a regular middle school into an immersive environment dedicated to exploring Japanese culture. Hidenori ...
TOKYO--Classrooms in Japan wil be getting some Xboxes...but not for the typical purpose of playing games. Microsoft announced today that it will be donating Xbox consoles enabled with video chat ...