With schools well into their final term and the university academic year already winding down it's time to reflect on the most significant events in Japanese education this past year.
Readers praise and pan Community articles from the past 12 months.
Having overcome isolation and a loss of self-confidence in Japan, one American mother now finds herself doling out advice to women seeking Asian men.
The first unofficial English school in Japan was "founded" in the late fall of 1848 in a prison cell in Nagasaki.
If the most important goal is to teach Japanese students how to speak the kind of everyday English used in the corporate world, then it's imperative that teachers provide them with frequent practice doing precisely that.
International couple say that advice from city officials to defer paying health insurance payments left them owing millions and dealing with debt collectors.
Foreign teachers working for English language school chain Aeon Corp. have chosen "perseverance" as the word of the year to describe Japan for the second consecutive year, the company said Thursday. This year saw natural disasters — including the eruption of Mount Ontake in September ...
