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Joseph Schooling of Singapore celebrates after winning the men's 100m Butterfly final at the 2016 Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016.
OLYMPICS
Apr 2, 2024
Singapore's only Olympic champion Schooling retires
The swimmer was mired in controversy in 2022 after confessing to taking cannabis overseas.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 31, 2022
Singapore swimmer Joseph Schooling apologizes for cannabis use
The swimmer, who has been performing his two years of mandatory military service, tested negative for drugs but confessed to consuming cannabis overseas in May.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 25, 2018
Singapore's Joseph Schooling pleased with Indonesian experience
Joseph Schooling and his Singapore team came up short of the podium, finishing fourth in the men's 4x100-meter medley relay, which wrapped up the six-day swimming competition at the Asian Games.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2016
Japan's free schools offer alternative to compulsory education but accreditation still eludes
When the coin hit the floor, the children gasped in surprise during a science class at Japan Freinet, a free school in Toshima Ward, Tokyo. They were experimenting to see which would fall first — the coin or a piece of paper of the same size.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2015
Online school aims to help students find their calling as they prepare to enter university
Former teacher Hirokazu Okuhira is concerned that the current education system in Japan is more about rote learning than helping students find career paths and nurturing human resources with the professional skills truly needed in today's society.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Dec 14, 2015
Boy who pushed for hospital high school education passes away
An 18-year-old boy from Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, who had called for hospital schooling for sick high school students and helped establish a teacher dispatch system, passed away last month.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Jul 1, 2015
Public schooling is a two-way street
Earlier this year, a reader wrote to The Japan Times in response to an education feature on schooling options for the children of non-Japanese parents. The reader wanted to know more, but the earlier feature was unfortunately curtailed by space.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
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.

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