A record high of 353,970 elementary and junior high school students were chronically absent during the 2024 academic year, ...

Red velvet cake made with a steamer and cream cheese icing. Coming to Japan, my major concerns about the Japanese home regarded their potential negative factors. "What if the walls are thin?" "What if ...

A study conducted by the Japan Student Services Organization, an independent administrative agency, found that there were 336,708 foreign students in Japan as of May 1, 2024, up 21% from the previous ...

Half of the residents of a university dorm in Oita Prefecture are from outside Japan. Students cook food, bathe communally and stay up chatting. We learn about their friendships and frustrations.

Japan's education ministry announced on June 26 that international doctoral students will be excluded from receiving support program funding for their living expenses from fiscal 2027. These expense ...

Japan is joining the shift to electronic textbooks, approving digital technology-based materials as official school textbooks, which until now have been limited to print publications. The policy ...

I moved to Japan in 2011, initially for one year, to teach English as an assistant language teacher on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (Jet) programme. I had always wanted to live in a completely ...

A classroom is seen in this file photo. (Mainichi/Buntaro Saito) Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its junior coalition partner Komeito and Nippon Ishin (the Japan Innovation Party) have agreed ...

THE ESSAY-writing skills of a Gorey Community School student have earned her an all expenses paid trip to Japan. Fifth year student Aine Ni Scannail began studying Japanese just last year, during ...