Despite its low birth rates, Japan is struggling with a shortage of teachers. In Japan, a ‘teacher shortage’ is a situation in which the number of teachers assigned to schools does not meet local ...

The government on the 3rd signaled cuts of 2,269 elementary school teachers and 1,458 secondary school teachers, citing a decline in the school-age population due to low births. Since 2023, the ...

As Japanese society increasingly gets global, a new study finds that its education system has not kept pace. Students with foreign roots face cultural and linguistic hurdles in schools that still ...