KAWAGUCHI, Saitama -- An elementary school here with a growing population of foreign students -- now accounting for over 40% of its roll -- has implemented intensive Japanese language programs to ...

An elementary school student in Japan has created a picture book about being assigned female at birth but identifying as a boy. The experience has instilled Ayano with a new sense of courage ...

A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both domestic and overseas audiences. “The Making of a Japanese,” directed by ...

and by extension the school’s floors, stay clean. But are uwabaki really necessary? Though they’ve been the norm at Japanese elementary, middle, and high schools since the 1950s, they’re falling out ...