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STUDENTS

Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2016
Younger students attend school in quake-hit Tottori Prefecture
Elementary and junior high schools in Tottori Prefecture opened as normal Monday following Friday's magnitude-6.6 earthquake, but some prefecture-run high schools were closed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2016
Japanese and North Korean students forge bonds in rare meeting but remain apart over nuclear weapons
A group of Japanese college students made a rare visit to Pyongyang in late August — just before North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9 — for talks on war and peace with local students.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2016
Journalism students headed for Kyoto in cultural exchange
Journalism students from universities will have the opportunity to travel to Kyoto and report on Japan with the help of local peers under a new cultural exchange initiative launched recently.
EDITORIALS
Sep 17, 2016
Preventing youth suicides
More than 300 schoolchildren take their own lives every year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 29, 2016
Nonprofits step up help for school-shy students at time when suicide numbers rise
Nonprofit groups are ramping up efforts to help students who feel driven into a corner as suicide rates tend to spike around the end of the summer holidays.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 29, 2016
Foreign part-timers proliferate in Chubu as scarce Japanese flee drunks at pubs
Foreign students working part-time in izakaya (pubs) are rising rapidly in the Chubu region amid the increasing tendency of many young Japanese to avoid drunk customers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2016
Asian students finish cross-cultural summer science course in Yokosuka
Forty-eight junior high and high school students from across Asia got together in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, to attend a one-week science summer school earlier this month.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 26, 2016
Striking a balance on free speech at schools
The freedom that teachers have to express their opinions on controversial issues is far more limited than that of students in both the U.S. and Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jul 22, 2016
Shake-up of Japanese-language schools looms amid drop in quality, oversight
A shake-up of Japanese-language schools looms as the government tries to lure more foreign students despite the fact that many are poorly run or even corrupt.
EDITORIALS
Jul 16, 2016
Getting youths to the ballot box
Teachers and students alike should be encouraged to express their political opinions and discuss concrete issues while refraining from imposing their views on others.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 16, 2016
Youthful voter turnout is unpredictable
The sheer newness of being able to vote too often fades unless it is underpinned by a deep sense of civic duty.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2016
Poll finds half of male students about to enter the workforce favor taking paternity leave
A survey by a job offer information firm showed that half of male students planning to start working next spring hope to take a child care leave if and when they have a child.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 9, 2016
Recruiting foreign students to study locally
A perfect storm of demographics and economics has caused universities in both Japan and the U.S. to aggressively woo students from abroad.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / DECISION 2016
Jul 8, 2016
Teachers say Japan's young voters need to have political awareness nurtured in schools
Three 18-year-old high school students at Shinagawa Joshi Gakuin in Tokyo said they were excited to cast their ballots in Sunday's Upper House election, being among the nation's first teenagers to join the electorate.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 27, 2016
Teen faces charges over breach of online school grades management system
A second arrest warrant is served on a 17-year-old boy over the theft of some 210,000 digital files containing the grades of students in Saga Prefecture schools.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2016
Internships in Japan dogged by recruiting, cheap labor suspicions
Part of Hideyuki Morimoto's internship at U.S. chemical giant DuPont's branch in Tochigi Prefecture involved preparing an experiment on engineering plastic. Although his mentor was watching over him, he still felt pressure to perform.
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2016
The need for more scholarships
The ruling and opposition parties must follow through on their promises to increase university scholarships and prevent more students from having to take out crippling loans.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 12, 2016
H.I.S. ‘fly with girls of Todai’ campaign crashes as travel agency assailed
Major travel agency H.I.S. Co. has been forced to cancel a sales campaign offering customers the chance to travel with "beautiful girls" from the University of Tokyo after an online backlash.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2016
Japanese charity Ashinaga sets up program allowing orphans to study English abroad
The charity Ashinaga, which provides financial support to school-age children who have lost parents to disasters, illness or suicide, will start a program in August to help such orphans study English abroad.
JAPAN / Society
Apr 1, 2016
2015 saw 13% surge in foreign students in Japan, aided by more Nepalese and Vietnamese
The number of foreign students enrolled in Japan rose 13.2 percent in 2015 from the year prior, with a dramatic increase in students from Vietnam and Nepal, according to data from the Japan Student Services Organization out Thursday.

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