What would happen if a student avatar joined a classroom one day and tried to break the mold of everyday discussions or deliberately opposed the consensus reached and pushed by the classroom leader?

The nonprofit organization Metanoia is holding a crowdfunding campaign to establish permanent Japanese language classrooms in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture for children of foreign backgrounds. Metanoia ...

The Vietnamese community in Japan currently has nearly 600,000 people and is growing stronger. Maintaining the Vietnamese ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Japan’s robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it’s not about to replace human instructors.

Marie Yamase, head of the Matsuyama Sakanoue Japanese School, shows the web page of her crowdfunding campaign, in Matsuyama, on Dec. 12, 2022. (Mainichi/Yasutoshi Tsurumi) MATSUYAMA -- A Japanese ...

Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology mandates the curriculum and approves textbooks for the entire nation, while in the United States, learning materials and how they ...

A man who cared for his grandmother -- who had dementia -- since he was a sixth-grader in elementary school is seen in Tokyo on March 16, 2020. He said shopping for her at a local supermarket was one ...