The start of the school year is just around the corner in Japan, with the term beginning in April. This means back-to-school shopping is in full swing and incoming first-graders are lining up at ...

Only one in five boys in high school in Japan have experienced their first kiss - the lowest figure since 1974, according to a survey conducted by the Japan Association for Sex Education (JASE ...

In Japan, more and more children are refusing to go to school, a phenomenon called "futoko". As the numbers keep rising, people are asking if it's a reflection of the school system, rather than a ...

Ultimately, "many Japanese [people] look at akiya as depreciating items that are more trouble than they're worth ... 2024, ...

SHENZHEN, China--The father of a student attending a Japanese school here expressed concern as students returned to classes this week one month after a schoolboy was stabbed to death on the street ...

Southwest High School was one of more than 8,000 sites nationwide that participated in “Lights On Afterschool,” a celebration ...

A Japanese school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen resumed in-person classes on Monday, nearly a month after one of its students was fatally stabbed. The 10-year-old boy was on his way to ...

KYOTO - On a late September day, after the summer heat had subsided, as evening approached and the cicadas stopped buzzing, ...

(Mainichi) KUMAMOTO -- Four staffers at a private high school in this southwest Japan city announced on Oct. 11 that members of the corporation running the school were harassed by senior officials.

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(Mainichi/Ryuko Tadokoro) ISESAKI, Gunma -- The number of students at the only night junior high school in east Japan's Gunma Prefecture has nearly doubled in the roughly sixth months since its ...

On Sept. 18, a 44-year-old Chinese man fatally stabbed the boy on a road near a Japanese school. Anti-Japanese comments on social media are said to have contributed to incidents in China in which ...