In an effort to raise students’ educational levels across the globe, the Program for International Student Assessment, encourages hundreds of thousands of 15-year-old students from sixty-five ...

Has Japanese society welcomed these foreign workers with open arms? Not always. Shunsuke Tanabe, a Waseda University Professor explains, “Many people in Japan think public security is getting worse as ...

I've recently found a couple of instances of utter moranity in the public edu system here (my two kids both attend local state schools). Kinda ironic, as the education level here was one of the ...

Filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki offers a unique lens to this question by playing observer to the Japanese education system, carefully uncovering the cultural intricacies that define what it truly means to ...

The policy debate over free high school tuition is drawing considerable attention in Japan. Compulsory education ends in junior high school but the high school enrolment rate already reached nearly 98 ...

In 1985, Education Week Staff Writer Sheppard Ranbom spent three months in Japan investigating its educational system and the increasingly loud calls for reform there. Just two years earlier, a panel ...

With 127 million people, Japan according to the OECD is one of the most developed and wealthiest countries in the world, albeit with record debt (debts equivalent to 250% of GDP) and a low birth rate ...

I for one like my shop employees cold and uncaring as long as I don't walk up to them with a request/question so the Japanese system grated my nerves quite a bit. Click to expand... The perfect ...