A Japanese morning show recently did a report on how some kids are doing their homework while playing clips of YouTubers studying. The show featured a clip by Hajime Shacho, one of Japan’s most famous ...

A survey found that around half of Japanese children thought that there was a need for homework over the summer vacation, with the percentage slightly higher among junior high school students. In ...

Sota Fujii poses with a Peko-chan doll in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on May 24, 2022, after defending his Eio title for the first time. (Mainichi/Kota Yoshida) TOKYO -- Schools across Japan give ...

Regarding Minoru Matsutani’s Jan. 10 article ”Student count, knowledge sliding“: I teach university-level English conversation for first-year students and have become increasingly frustrated with my ...

The author is a Tokyo correspondent of the JoongAng Ilbo. A grey-haired woman works as a server at the dessert cafe I stop by in Ginza, Tokyo. She is 70 years old and wears a white blouse and a black ...

Japan has long been notorious for its super-short summer vacations -- it's just five and a half weeks at the public school my seven-year-old daughter started in April. But just in case kids still have ...