Years of pandemic school closures leave Philippines with deep scars
Protracted school closures worsen basic literacy standards and will likely reduce the productivity and earnings of children once they enter the workforce, the World Bank has warned.
Nearly all Japan's school boards scrap gender field on applications
The decision to longer require students to specify their gender comes amid growing awareness of transgender and nonbinary individuals in Japan.
A growing number of schools allow students to choose skirts or pants for their uniforms, while satchels for elementary school children free from gender-based colors are increasingly common.
Faced with crop destruction, Chiba city fosters hunting and serving wild game as enterprise
The city of Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, has set up a "business school for hunting" that provides courses introducing people to the pursuit of game and encouraging them to consider it as a livelihood. The city has been battling destruction of its agricultural crops by wild ...
India opens first training center for Japanese-language teachers
India's first training center for teachers of Japanese was officially opened Monday in the capital, New Delhi. The inauguration ceremony for the center, which is a joint project involving the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the Japanese Embassy with the support of the Japan ...
Classes resumed at an elementary school in the city of Toyama on Tuesday amid tight security, a week after a man killed a security guard who worked at the school and a police officer, with a knife and a gun, as well as firing ...
Hundreds of Osaka residents were living in shelters Monday as the city and prefecture began to take account of the damage from last week’s violent rush-hour earthquake.
School uniforms go unisex as Japanese schools seek better fit for LGBT students
An emerging number of Japanese schools are introducing unisex uniforms or flexible uniform codes in an effort to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. School officials hope the move will ease the mental anguish of such students, who are usually required to wear gender-based ...
In Kanagawa, homeless grow crops and confidence
Kiyoko Ojima awoke to the problems of the needy while in elementary school, when she came across a TV documentary about trying to find solutions to starvation in Africa. "I wanted to help those who are starving by growing crops," she said of her passion ...
