During the summers of 2008 and 2009, I attended a public elementary school in a Tokyo suburb. As an American, it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. Jen Adams/BuzzFeed For some context, I ...
For six years I lived with my grandparents in Okinawa for a couple of months. I learned so much about music when I was in school in Japan. I think a mix of both educational systems would be ideal. For ...
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The silent crisis in Japan's schools
The most recent figure from Japan’s Ministry of Education is 346,482. That’s the number of students, from elementary through high school, who missed more than a month of school in the 2023–24 academic ...
Young people in every society face challenges as they transition to adulthood and strive to find their place in society. Youth unemployment in particular is a policy issue targeted by many governments ...
As Japan’s foreign population continues to grow, the number of foreign-nationality kids living in the country is rising too. Unfortunately, the number of kids living in Japan who aren’t proficient in ...
Nearly every elementary school student in Japan carries a book bag known as a randoseru, a staple of Japanese childhood for close to 150 years. No one mandates that students use these backpacks, but ...
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