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 ...

As Japanese society increasingly gets global, a new study finds that its education system has not kept pace. Students with foreign roots face cultural and linguistic hurdles in schools that still ...

Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s has proposed limiting the SPRING doctoral scholarship’s living expense support to Japanese nationals. While aimed at ...

Ms. Yamazaki is a documentary filmmaker. Update: This documentary short is nominated for the 97th Academy Awards. What makes Japanese people distinctively Japanese? For me, the key lies in what we are ...