A South Korean elementary school whose name means "shit" has decided to adopt a more fragrant moniker, school officials said Friday. Many Korean names and words are based on Chinese characters, so when rendered in the Hangul alphabet they can have the same sound but ...
The outing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students by teachers is on the rise in Japan, which still lacks a framework for understanding the ramifications of the issue in terms of the educational system. Teachers who may simply think they are showing consideration to ...
Suicide remains the top cause of death among Japanese youths. That must change.
The operator of a Korean senior high school in the city of Hiroshima appealed to a higher court Tuesday a ruling dismissing its claim for the publicly funded tuition support that covers most of the nation's high schools. The appeal comes just days after a ...
A rural city in Gunma Prefecture will launch a program next year offering a year-long English-immersion dormitory experience for junior high and high school students. A three-month trial course set to run from this August has attracted more than 1,900 applications from across the country, ...
A former substitute teacher in Oklahoma who exposed herself to students when she did a cartwheel while wearing a long skirt but no underwear has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge. Lacey Sponsler pleaded guilty Monday to assault after the charge was reduced from indecent ...
The government at a meeting of ministers Thursday decided to take further measures to alert the public of fire ants, a venomous invasive alien species, as summer holidays are starting at elementary and other schools in Japan. At the meeting, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, ...
The Yokohama District Court on Wednesday sentenced a former elementary school teacher to three years in prison on sexual abuse and child pornography charges. Akira Hashimoto, a 45-year-old resident of Tachikawa, in western Tokyo, sexually abused an 11-year-old boy at a condominium in Shizuoka Prefecture ...
To understand why some students in Japan, China and Korea plagiarize or don't speak out, it's worth looking at their modern education systems.
Upcoming changes to Japanese university admissions have students, parents and teachers raising their hands to ask questions.
Students and professors were to be legally allowed to carry concealed handguns on college campuses starting Saturday in the state of Kansas. The concealed carry law was enacted four years ago and applied to all public buildings, but colleges in the Midwestern state were exempted ...
Whenever Shigeyoshi Suzuki, 39, a public elementary school teacher in Tokyo, sees children voicing anti-gay slurs or taunts, he will always put a stop to it and make them aware of the harms of such discrimination. "If your teacher explains (the issues surrounding the rights ...
