The number of elementary and junior high school students marked as “absent” after missing 30 days or more hit a record ...

More than a dozen students reported feeling unwell after pepper spray was accidentally discharged at a junior high ...

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Japanese junior and senior high school uniforms are undergoing a wave of major transformations not seen in decades, with some ...

Tokyo — When Akino Imanaka attended her junior high school graduation earlier this month, the whole community turned out to celebrate. It wasn't just that Imanaka had ranked at the top of her class — ...

Japan's school absences have hit a record high, according to an education ministry survey. The total has been increasing for ...

MAKINOHARA, Shizuoka -- A municipal junior high school here was swindled out of about 10 million yen (around $62,600) from ...

TOKYO -- One in four Japanese students between the fourth grade of elementary school and the third year of junior high school ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A junior high teacher in Osaka, Japan, had three months of pay docked by 10% for physically assaulting ...

FILE PHOTO: Former classmates discuss plans for their delayed school trip, after the coming-of-age ceremony in Motosu, Gifu prefecture, on Jan 11. - The Japan News/ANN MOTOSU, Gifu: Former students of ...

A student sits the online English listening component of the 2026 national achievement test at a junior high school in Tokyo on April 20, 2026. (Pool photo) TOKYO -- Japan's national achievement test ...