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“Well, yeah, of course you’re gonna get punched if you talk to someone that way.”
Dress code detail is a waste of time to even discuss, frustrated junior high teacher says.
Japanese schools continue in their quest to make math as annoying and tedious as possible.
The exciting program may be the first graduate video game design course at a Japanese university.
One Japanese netizen guesses that it has to do with fundamental problems in the Japanese education system.
Combines modern technology and old-school carpentry in a way that puts ordinary science fair projects to shame.
Looking at sexy anime and manga is a time-honored way of rubbing away work-caused stress in Japan, but you’re supposed to wait until after work.
Sadly, quintessential anime scenes of rooftop swimming classes may be coming to an end soon.
When a student’s love of anime pops up during school time, some teachers would be mad, but this one decided to be awesome instead.
New rules aims to close loophole that lets language school students spend as much of the year working full-time as attending class.
Majority say they can see some sort of logic behind university systematically reducing women’s entrance exam scores by up to 20 percent.
Source says score-rigging was born out of concern that many “female doctors quit their jobs after having children.”
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