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N HIGH SCHOOL

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 12, 2015
Teen held over bomb threat at Okayama high school
A 15-year-old male was arrested Thursday for an alleged bomb threat targeting a high school in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, that was evacuated earlier this week, police said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 25, 2015
Summit spotlights school dramatists
"Diversity is the outstanding attraction of high school drama, so I'm always appreciating afresh theater's myriad charms," the prominent director Keisuke Tanaka said with a beaming smile during a recent interview ahead of the fifth annual High School Drama Summit at Tokyo's leading Agora Theater.
EDITORIALS
Jan 12, 2015
Set clear goals for unified schools
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.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 28, 2014
Oka Gakuen beats Showa Gakuin for Winter Cup girls title
After the game, Shinichi Inoue, longtime head coach for the Oka Gakuen High School girls basketball team, said that his team was "still weak."
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2014
Teacher faces penalty for Facebook photo of student punishment
A teacher at a private junior high school is facing disciplinary action over Facebook postings that included a photo of him punishing students accompanied by humiliating comments, school insiders said Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 1, 2014
Aichi girl, 14, dies in apparent suicidal leap from condo
A 14-year-old girl in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, jumped from her family's 12th-floor condo in an apparent suicide, police said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 14, 2014
Entrance exam scoring errors
The apology by Tokyo's Office of Education for more than 2,000 scoring errors found on high school entrance examinations underscores the need for greater exactitude in the entrance exam system and more transparency about its aims.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 19, 2014
Tohoku school's plays tell how it is
"We always start creating our next work by having a meeting with everyone involved in the drama club," high school teacher Michiko Ishii explained.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2014
Disaster-hit school sees off first grads in three years
A junior high school formerly in the evacuated village of Katsurao, Fukushima Prefecture, held its first commencement ceremony Thursday since the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis began unfolding in March 2011.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 28, 2013
Oka Gakuen captures back-to-back Winter Cup titles
Oka Gakuen didn't repeat its nearly miserable state of the previous day.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 27, 2013
Oka Gakuen edges St. Catalina Girls in Winter Cup semifinals
High school basketball giant Oka Gakuen survived a late surge from St. Catalina Girls to earn a 68-65 win in the girls semifinals of the 44th All-Japan High School Tournament at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Dec 15, 2013
Fukushima loses first high school to meltdowns
A private high school in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, will close for good at the end of March because the nuclear disaster has decimated enrollment, school officials said.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Aug 22, 2013
Maebashi Ikuei captures Koshien title
Tournament debutant Maebashi Ikuei of Gunma Prefecture defeated Miyazaki's Nobeoka Gakuen 4-3 in the final to win the National High School Baseball Championship Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 27, 2013
Ashland High edges Japan All-Stars in entertaining Pacific Rim Bowl XIII
High School team held off the Japan All-Stars 32-30 in an wild finish in Pacific Rim Bowl XIII on Saturday at Kobe's Oji Stadium.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 27, 2013
Schoolboy hurler Anraku books Koshien return
High school pitcher Tomohiro Anraku, whose extreme pitch counts this spring drew worldwide attention, pitched Saibi High School into the upcoming National High School Baseball Championship with a 5-2 complete game victory on Saturday in the Ehime Prefecture's final.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 25, 2013
Ashland set to take on Japan prep stars in Pacific Rim Bowl
While NFL and U.S. college football teams are gearing up for the upcoming season, high school players on both sides of the Pacific Ocean are busy fine-tuning their skills for the fall season.
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2013
New prep school to groom for top colleges abroad
The Kawaijuku cram school chain plans to create a joint junior high and high school that emphasizes English-language education with the aim of sending students to top foreign universities, Kawaijuku officials said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Mar 29, 2013
Makankosappo: high school girls conjure up a special force
In homage to Dragon Ball Z, Japanese high school girls beam themselves up.
EDITORIALS
Feb 24, 2013
Sportsmanship gone awry
Details of the brutal physical and verbal abuse by the basketball coach of an Osaka high school boy who committed suicide have finally been released. The external independent panel found that coach Hajime Komura repeatedly and consistently used corporal punishment and verbal abuse on the boy before the boy killed himself. Clearly, the unjustified abuse contributed to the boy's suffering and death.
EDITORIALS
Jan 29, 2013
Odd response to student's suicide
The Osaka City Board of Education is more intent on engaging in political gimmicks than on enacting meaningful reform in the wake of a student's suicide.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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