A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both domestic and overseas audiences. “The Making of a Japanese,” directed by Ema ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great Falls — Nineteen students from Great Falls Elementary School and Cooper Middle School spent their summer in a unique way. The students spent two weeks in Japan as a culmination of their Japanese ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a small fishing village situated along the eastern coast of Japan, a couple from Lancaster city, two elementary school teachers, wake up at 4:30 a.m. to get to the pier. There, they climb aboard ...

Great Falls — Several Great Falls Elementary students will be spending the first part of their summer vacation in Japan, as part of an exchange program. While on the trip, they will visit various ...

Nearly a month after the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, the country is struggling to recover, amid fears over leaking radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Students at a Loudoun County ...