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A video of a first-year high school student in Niigata Prefecture being attacked by a group of schoolmates was posted online and went viral on social media, school officials said Tuesday. The video shows a male student who attends private Niigata Seiryo High School being ...

A court orders two former classmates of a 13-year-old boy who killed himself in 2011 to pay ¥37.5 million in damages, recognizing their bullying caused his death.

The education ministry will consider reviewing a ban on elementary and junior high school students carrying smartphones and other mobile phones at school, education minister Masahiko Shibayama said Tuesday. "We'll consider reviewing the notice (that included the smartphone ban) in the light of changes in ...

A city in Shiga Prefecture said Friday it plans to use artificial intelligence to predict the potential consequences of suspected cases of bullying at schools, in what would be the first such analysis by a municipality in the country. "Through an AI theoretical analysis of ...

The education ministry has said it will step up efforts to encourage public schools to adopt reforms intended to tackle excessive overtime work by teachers, calling on local education boards to establish pools of support staff capable of leading extracurricular activities on behalf of ...

Starting in April, Tokyo’s Nakano Ward will allow female students at all municipal junior high schools to choose pants as part of their uniform, and Setagaya Ward will also allow the same option.

More than 400 schools in Thailand's capital, Bangkok, were shut for the rest of the week Wednesday due to increasing concern over dangerously unhealthy air pollution. Faced with public discontent as well as a possible health crisis, Police Gen. Asawin Kwanmuang, the city's governor, also ...

Ideas are shifting about what constitutes the nebulously named concept of "peace education" in Nagasaki, the second city ever to suffer an atomic attack, as its educators look to create a new approach to learning about their city's difficult history. Educators say too much emphasis ...

A government panel proposed Friday that overtime work for teachers in public schools be capped, in principle, at 45 hours per month and 360 hours per year. The proposal was part of a report on public school teachers' work-style reforms compiled by the Central Council ...

Greater involvement by families and local communities can stimulate the curiosity of young potential leaders and cultivate their spirit of adventure.

The mystery over the recently discovered use of real human bones as skeleton models at schools has continued to deepen. How the real bones were procured is unknown in most cases, as no precise records exist. People familiar with the matter say that the bones seem ...