IS THIS POSSIBLE IN YOUR COUNTRY? Japan’s education system is often praised for putting character before competition, and that reputation is mostly earned, with a little nuance. In public elementary ...

I've recently found a couple of instances of utter moranity in the public edu system here (my two kids both attend local state schools). Kinda ironic, as the education level here was one of the ...

The Japanese economy has been suffering in part because of an aging population, resulting in an extreme shortage of young labor. To compensate, Japan has begun actively allowing in foreign workers.

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 ...

The policy debate over free high school tuition is drawing considerable attention in Japan. Compulsory education ends in junior high school but the high school enrolment rate already reached nearly 98 ...

Filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki offers a unique lens to this question by playing observer to the Japanese education system, carefully uncovering the cultural intricacies that define what it truly means to ...

With 127 million people, Japan according to the OECD is one of the most developed and wealthiest countries in the world, albeit with record debt (debts equivalent to 250% of GDP) and a low birth rate ...