A Tokyo high school student is in critical condition after coming down with heatstroke during a punitive basketball practice, officials said Friday. The 15-year-old pupil at Eifuku Gakuen, a public high school for mentally disabled students, collapsed Wednesday after a teacher ordered him to do ...
The education ministry has started discussions on providing support for high schools that operate social businesses, aiming to solve problems in regional communities through business methods, Jiji Press learned Tuesday. The ministry plans to offer backups, such as collating successful cases of social businesses undertaken ...
Schoolmates Beatrize Chee and Gio Franza from Manila's financial district of Makati are both self-confessed anime fans. As such, it was only natural for them to decide to enroll in the Japanese language and culture course that Makati Science High School has been offering ninth- ...
A record-high 2,147 students from overseas studied at Japanese high schools for a period of three months or longer in fiscal 2015, rebounding from a sharp drop in 2011, the education ministry said Tuesday. The roughly biennial survey on high schools nationwide showed the number ...
A group of students from Soka Senior High School in Tokyo won the English Paper Champion Prize this week for their English-language newspaper featuring articles on world peace, human rights and nuclear disarmament. The first installment of the All Japan Junior and Senior High School ...
A teenager turns herself into a new breed of political activist to shake up an apathetic country that she says is encouraging a dangerous drift to the right.
The government has issued guidelines allowing high school students to participate in political activities now that the voting age for elections has been lowered to 18 from 20. The education ministry sent the new guidelines to prefectural education boards, scrapping instructions from 1969 banning high ...
A private high school in the city of Kochi will launch a course in the 2016 academic year to foster personnel for the Self-Defense Forces, school officials said. Kochi Chuo High School's "SDF course" will provide training in the martial art of jukendo and classroom ...
The education ministry on Wednesday presented its advisory panel with an outline of its proposed overhaul of school curriculum guidelines, suggesting modern history should be taught as a compulsory subject in high schools by integrating the existing courses on Japanese and world history. The envisioned ...
Tokyo's education bureau chief apologized Wednesday for more than 2,000 cases of scoring errors on high school entrance examinations for the past two academic years, which resulted in erroneously rejecting 18 successful applicants. "I apologize from the bottom of my heart to successful applicants who ...
The Super Global High Schools project, a key part of the Japanese government's plan to reverse two decades of economic decline and growing insularity among the young, tasks 56 schools with creating a new generation of global leaders.
About 2.24 million elementary school sixth-graders and third-year junior high school students took the national achievement examination Tuesday. When the results are known around August, the education ministry will allow them to be made available on a school-by-school and municipality-by-municipality basis for the first time ...
