The two were the only graduates of Yumoto Junior High in a mountainous part of northern Japan - and the last. The 76-year-old school will shut its doors for good when the school year ends on Friday.

TOKYO -- University admission exam prep school Nichigaku in the capital's Shinjuku Ward suddenly closed its doors just before Japan's standardized university entrance exams on Jan. 18 and 19.

(Mainichi/Sahomi Nishimoto) TOKYO -- A teacher at an elite national elementary school in Japan hid bullying in their class, causing the victim to abandon his plan to advance to an affiliated ...

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013. The new measure, approved in ...