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BOARD OF EDUCATION

Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 7, 2018
In Japan no one wants to talk about sex education
The English 'penis' — which rhymes with 'Venice' in katakana — is the preferred technical term when discussing male genitalia in Japan, but even that seems to be taboo in broadcast situations.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 18, 2016
Police warned school about extortion of bullied Fukushima boy in 2011
An elementary school in Yokohama ignored a police report that a transfer student from disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture was possibly being bullied and extorted by classmates, sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2016
Chiba schools' 'kumitaiso' exercises led to 432 injury cases
Injuries from kumitaiso, a form of physical education in which people use their bodies to express shapes, including human pyramids, numbered 432 cases in the last fiscal year at elementary and junior high schools in Chiba Prefecture, officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 28, 2014
Abe looks to instill politics in education
Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is cranking out policies to strengthen the political grip on education, turning the postwar notion on its head that instruction of the nation's young people should be free of political influence.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2013
English teachers to study abroad
In a bold move to raise the level of English instruction, the Tokyo Board of Education plans to start sending its junior high and high school teachers to an English-speaking country for three months of study.

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