The Liberal Democratic Party, the Japan Innovation Party and Komeito also agreed to raise the upper limit for existing ...

The Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party on Friday agreed on the details of a system to make high school tuition free, making it the first formal accord on implementing a major ...

Japan's education ministry has found that bullying at schools across the country hit a record high in fiscal 2024 for the ...

Japan's education ministry has decided to notify school boards nationwide of steps to prevent wild bears from entering ...

The power of artificial intelligence is being put to use in Japan for diverse purposes, from helping children at risk of skipping school to teaching English conversation, and even keeping the stories ...

Japan is grappling with a growing crisis of school absenteeism, as new education ministry data shows a record number of ...

The number of foreign children of elementary or junior high school age living in Japan who were not or may not have been in education amounted to 8,432 as of May 2024, an education ministry survey ...

Japan's new education minister Yohei Matsumoto was one backer of a 2007 movie that cast doubt on the factuality of the ...

Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, saw a record 14,537 violent incidents at public schools in the 2024 academic year, and ...

ASHIYA, Hyogo Prefecture—Time magazine has named Ryosuke Takashima, Japan’s youngest-ever mayor, to its “Time 100 Next 2025” ...

TOKYO -- Japan's cram schools, facing a declining customer base as the country's population ages and shrinks, are turning ...

The board of education in Japan's Chiba Prefecture dismissed a male teacher from Funabashi city in disgrace on Oct 15 for ...