TOKYO - All textbooks for elementary schools will include QR codes to access video, audio and other resources starting from the 2024 school year, further integrating print and digital materials.

While studying in the United States as a 2011 Fulbright visiting scholar, I strongly felt that there was an urgent need for Japan to create a new elementary school environment of progressive education ...

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 ...

COVID-19, the coronavirus disease, has closed schools and workplaces around the world. People have gotten creative with holding virtual gatherings while sheltering at home, from weddings in the ...

This photo shows a room in a temporary custody facility managed by a child consultation center in western Japan. (Mainichi/Asako Kuroda) Some 28,000 elementary and junior high school students were ...

The only experience I have with the American public school system is when I was a student in the ’70s and ’80s in west-central Florida. My experience with the Japanese school system is from having ...

TOKYO - When Mio Honzawa starts fifth grade next April, her textbooks will be thicker. Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding ...

A new research program is underway in Japan which will introduce fifth graders to a 1.2 meter tall communication robot called Robovie over a period of 14 months. Researchers at the International ...

Elementary school teachers watch out. Japan’s trying to make you obsolete! In lieu of a real flesh and blood person, one primary class in Tokyo is now getting a robot teacher named Saya. Saya has 18 ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Students at Joan K. Mendel Elementary School immersed themselves Tuesday into Japan-Asia Day. Whether it was donning a kimono, arranging flowers or sampling Asian ...