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EDUCATION

Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2014
NPO lends support to Filipino dropouts
A charity in the Philippines is helping an important but often overlooked segment of the population: school dropouts.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 26, 2014
This teacher's seen more ESL acronyms than you've had hot dinners
Even after long years teaching English in Japan, he still views himself as an avant-garde teaching artist, as can be seen by what insists he now be called: The Adjunct Instructor Formerly Known as Bob.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2014
Like Japan, South Korea embroiled in textbook battle
A 17-year-old Korean girl tortured to death for opposing Japanese colonial rulers nearly a century ago has become the latest touchstone of the nationalism that is shadowing Asia's economic rise.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 24, 2014
With ethics classes receiving upgrade in 2018, worries of nationalism rise
Starting in the 2018 academic year, so-called "dotoku" (moral education) will be part of the regular curriculum in elementary and junior high schools, instead of its current status as an "activity outside the set subjects."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Nov 23, 2014
Teaching quality, not lesson quantity, may be key to Japan's top math marks
Japan spends less on education than most OECD countries, so why do its students continue to outperform their Western counterparts in math?
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2014
Shimomura wants to make English classes mandatory for fifth- and sixth-graders
Education minister Hakubun Shimomura proposes a root-and-branch overhaul of the elementary, junior high and high school curricula.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2014
Kagoshima school offers cash handouts for pupils accepted to top universites
Desperate to keep enrollment from declining further at its only academically competitive high school, a small city in Kagoshima Prefecture is trying to cajole 15-year-olds into attending, promising cash handouts of up to ¥1 million if they study hard enough to be accepted by a prestigious university....
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 14, 2014
View private operation of schools with caution
Education reformers take for granted that strategies borrowed from business will improve schools. But the evidence is hardly convincing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2014
North Korean schools in Japan soldiering on despite tough times
Like many students in Japan, Kim Yang Sun cycles to school each morning. Unlike most, she then changes into a traditional Korean outfit and studies under portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 8, 2014
Determining good and evil, with the kids
What is "moral education"?
EDITORIALS
Nov 8, 2014
Grade school squeeze is on
Japan's Finance Ministry has asked the education ministry to increase the number of grade school students per class, reversing a decision from 2011 to reduce class size.
EDITORIALS
Nov 8, 2014
Universities get yen for ranking
The central government has announced additional funding for 37 leading public and private universities as a way to increase their global ranking and competitiveness. No mention was made of the other 67 schools that applied.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Oct 31, 2014
Teen cancer patient asks Aichi governor to arrange schooling in hospital
A 17-year-old boy being treated for kidney cancer has appealed to the governor of Aichi Prefecture to set up a high school education program in his hospital.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 30, 2014
Thai junta's focus on school reforms raises eyebrows
Sixteen years old and studying 13 hours a day, high school pupil Worapot doesn't have time to waste meeting a military-led government's idea of what makes a good Thai.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 27, 2014
Former St. Mary's teachers faced child sex abuse charges in U.S.
Two former teachers at St. Mary's International School in Tokyo faced child sexual abuse charges after returning to the United States.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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