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 ...
KUMAMOTO -- A former high school classroom where literary giants Soseki Natsume ... The restored classroom, where notable figures such as Hearn, also known by his Japanese name Yakumo Koizumi, and ...
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 ...
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 ...