Logistical mishaps and contradicting guidelines hinder what could be one of the best ways to lower COVID-19 community transmission.
junior high school
Assistant Language Teacher quickly learns that Japanese doesn’t always translate properly into English.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology says that in three years teachers might get their holidays to themselves.
Studying is much more exciting when you can imagine yourself dating one of the textbook characters.
Threatening to cut people up with a knife is not the best way to go about airing frustrations.
Requested by the students themselves, the afternoon siesta is designed to improve concentration levels and protect the environment.
Many people who have spent time in Japan have stories of someone doing something really nice for them out of simple kindness. Such encounters range from getting a bag of onions from a shop owner to receiving an umbrella from a stranger, while standing in pouring rain (both true stories). Even on the job, workers’ kindness and sense of duty to show such consideration comes through in the form of outstanding customer service.
Such was the case in Chiba Prefecture last week when two junior high school students got on the wrong train and were about to be late to one of the most important tests of their lives: the public high school entrance exam. Thanks to some kind Japan Rail staff, they made it— although, we’re not sure if they passed.
I’ve marked my fair share of English exam papers here in Japan, and there have been a few gems of hilarity in amongst the spelling mistakes and butchered grammar, but nothing that measures up to this beauty. One student’s answer to a simple question was so deep and existential, it read like poetry.
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