A former high school classroom where literary giants Soseki Natsume (1867-1916) and Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) used to teach ...

Foreign students in Shibafuji Elementary School's Japanese language "survival course" follow directions from a teacher, left, as they practice writing hiragana characters on the blackboard ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nic Lim, an author from New Zealand who moved to Japan for four years to work as an English teacher ... of a blazing Japanese summer, en ...

For a lot of kids in Japan, the first thing they do when they get to school in the morning isn’t to sharpen a pencil, take ...