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.

I learned so much about music when I was in school in Japan. I think a mix of both educational systems would be ideal. For six years of my early life, I had the fortune of partaking in a unique ...

She talks about her motivations to go to Japan, how the classes were like, and what she did post-school to continue her Japanese language learning journey. Life Where I'm From Posted: April 14 ...

captured the suspect entering the main school building unabated by blasting through two sets of glass double doors and stalking the halls before killing six people, including three children.

Last week industrial espionage achieved a new pinnacle of respectability in Japan with the opening of the Institute for Industrial Protection, a school avowedly established to train spies and ...

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 ...

The number of people who died by suicide in Japan fell to its second-lowest level ... However, the number among elementary, junior high and high school students reached a record high, highlighting ...

(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 ...

Only about one-fifth of high school boys have had their first kiss, the lowest rate recorded since the Japan Association for Sex Education (JASE) began its national survey on youth sexuality in 1974.

DALLAS — Dallas ISD trustees heard a proposal Thursday to formalize a policy to send students who open locked exterior school doors to 15 days at an alternative school designated for students in ...