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Immigration pact needed to thwart dodgy brokers targeting Nepalese heading to Japan, experts say
As Japan prepares to welcome a wave of new foreign workers, experts are cautioning Nepalese over unethical immigration brokers and urging their government to conclude an agreement with Japan for greater transparency in movements of migrant workers. In April, Tokyo will introduce a new program ...
High school soba champ shows she's a cut above the rest
Rurika Koike, 18, is a one-of-a-kind champion. She won the all-Japan high school tournament this summer for excellence in the art of making soba. In the annual championship, 154 students from 32 schools from northern to southwestern Japan don caps and white aprons to test ...
About 40% of Japanese teens say sex education at school is useless: survey
About 40 percent of those aged between 17 and 19 think sex education at school is useless, an online survey by the Nippon Foundation think tank showed Thursday. Almost one in four respondents said they have had sex, and three out of four said they ...
Record 73% of Japan's college students participated in 'internship' programs
A record 72.8 percent of college students in Japan have participated in corporate internship programs, a recent survey by Mynavi Corp. has found. The internship participation rate inched up 0.6 percentage points from the previous year's survey, according to the job information company. The latest survey ...
More and more schools are trying out cognitive behavioral therapy "games" to get kids to confront their everyday problems, and in turn lessen the likelihood they will cut school or bully others. Elementary and junior high schools in five prefectures have introduced the psychotherapy regimen, ...
Fearing espionage, U.S. considers bringing in tighter rules for Chinese students
The Trump administration is considering new background checks and other restrictions on Chinese students in the United States over growing espionage concerns, U.S. officials and congressional sources said. In June, the State Department shortened the length of visas for Chinese graduate students studying aviation, robotics ...
That Diet members are considering a legal revision designed to beef up school responses to bullying is testament to educators' failure to effectively address the problem.
French universities to offer more courses in English to attract foreign students
France wants to boost the number of foreign students at its universities by more than half over the next decade and will offer more courses taught in English to attract them. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, announcing the plan on Monday, said increasing the number of ...
As foreign labor system evolves, education has to play catch-up
Japanese-language education is becoming more important for children of foreign residents in Japan at a time when the government is planning to introduce a new visa system to increase the number of foreign workers. Elementary and junior high schools accept children with almost no conditions ...
Chinese university students, alumni speak out over disappearance of young labor activists
Students and alumni of several Chinese universities are sounding the alarm over the apparent detention of more than a dozen young labor activists who have been missing since the weekend. Three recent graduates of the elite Peking University have been taken away by authorities, the ...
Labor activists in China go missing after suspected coordinated raids
At least 12 Chinese labor activists have gone missing in recent days, in what sources close to them believe was a coordinated effort by authorities to silence the vocal group, most of them university students or recent graduates. Authorities took away at least nine activists ...
Let Harvard be Harvard, only much bigger
Increasing class size is the best answer for Harvard and other top schools to be more inclusive.
