education (Page 11)
Third-grader who’s too smart for his own good gets science test question wrong for very dumb reason.
The existence of the Japanese-style toilet in places of education may be circling the drain.
Trapped and with his life hanging in the balance, this calm-and-collected Chinese student took the opportunity to get his math drills done.
The annual hit to the family’s finances has certain households dreading the start of each new school year.
Being tired is no excuse to stop studying, packaging implies.
Vantan High School tries to get ahead of the increasing use of drones and robotics in industry and may have become the coolest high school in Japan as a result.
Do Re Mi Day is celebrated on 24 June and our resident musical expert K. Nagahashi would like to remind everyone that there’s no better time to obtain perfect pitch than the present.
”Make your parents cry” may not have been the assignment, but it was definitely the result of this important lesson.
This month Osaka Prefectural Police pressed charges against a 16-year-old boy for a first-of-its-kind cyber attack in Japan.
Explanation of what kind of person would love the job subtly tells readers that a lot of people would absolutely hate it.
Internet users offer counterpoints that suggest disgruntled high school student may, in fact, not know everything.
Labels the country’s schools as stifling “salaryman training facilities.”
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