The drive to move the start of Japan’s school year from April to September appears to be losing steam as the sheer scale of such a change has hit home. Weeks have passed since government leaders ...

Teachers at a school in southern Japan are being mocked and condemned after a 14-year-old girl was punished for plucking her eyebrows. The student at a junior high school in the town of Kurume ...

A public elementary school in rural Japan has done away with homework — and after one year, some students say they are more motivated to learn. The principal of Yamagata Prefecture's Nisshin ...