Toyama elementary school extends closure after attack threat
An elementary school in the city of Toyama near the site of a shooting and stabbing incident last week said Monday it will remain closed after a threat was made to attack it. An email warning that an attack would take place Wednesday against Okuda ...
Young girl hit by train in central Japan in suspected murder
Police are investigating the incident as a possible murder due to the victim’s body showing signs of having been strangled.
Computer programming seen as key to Japan's place in 'fourth industrial revolution'
The life of Emi Morikawa, 17, changed dramatically after she learned computer programming. Morikawa was just another high school student who liked to study English. But now the young programmer runs her own web venture, which she founded after graduating from high school. "As I studied ...
A 12-year-old boy in the city of Kyoto has admitted to smoking marijuana, it was learned Tuesday. Investigators in the Kyoto Prefectural Police said it is extremely rare for an elementary school student to be questioned in connection with a possible violation of the Cannabis ...
Seattle school bus waiting to pick up kids hit by gunfire; no one hurt
A school bus arriving outside a Seattle elementary school to pick up children at the end of the day on Thursday was struck by gunfire, prompting a lockdown of the school and a search for suspects, but no one was hurt, city police and ...
The education ministry plans to submit bills to the Diet that will legally institutionalize unified schools — encompassing grades one through nine — as part of the nation's compulsory education system.
The library at a school near the radiation exclusion zone in Fukushima Prefecture has received an unusual makeover that aims to fuel readers' imaginations. The book room at Yoshima Daiichi Elementary School in Iwaki, a municipality hit hard by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear ...
English to get 2020 push but teachers not on same page
A reform plan released in mid-December by the education ministry looks to bolster English study from elementary to high school from the 2020 academic year to pursue globalization.
Fukushima evacuee kids made welcome in Saitama school
With little hope of returning home, children from the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, are making new friends at a school in Saitama Prefecture that took them in two years ago after the meltdowns of March 2011 ruined the area. Shortly after the devastating earthquake ...
