The total number of foreign children registered in Japan as residents eligible for education at elementary or junior high ...

The number of foreign children up to junior high age in Japan who are confirmed not to be enrolled in a local or international school ...

Coinciding with Japan’s domestic milestone is an effort at the United Nations to draft a new international human rights treaty—technically a “fourth optional protocol” to the 1989 Convention on the ...

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Why does Ohtani Shohei, a Japanese baseball star, pick up litter after games? Why do Japanese people queue so politely, and wait for green lights before crossing the road? Why, in short, is Japan so ...

TOMODACHI Kibou for Maui students at the program’s opening reception in Higashimatsushima, Japan, are, top row, Mia Kosianowski, left, Jazmin Mathias, Sabrina Calma, Taika Swearingen, M Jee Abara and ...

Save the Children Japan was established in 1986 with a focus on child protection, disaster risk reduction and creating child-friendly communities in Japan. We also work in the fields of health, ...

A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, has found that Japan's spending on education was the fourth lowest share of total government expenditure among 37 ...

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013. The new measure, approved in the ...

SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent an educational aid fund and stipends to an association of pro-Pyongyang residents in Japan to mark the upcoming 113th birthday of ...