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Exasperated educator takes workplace survey and is depressed by rationale for forcing students to join after-school programs.
Coach retains job, school says it does not think attacks by other students constituted bullying.
Ueno Zoo reminds youths that they don’t need anyone’s permission to run away from a dangerous situation.
Muscular, smooth-skinned Chaundo retired from modeling decades ago, but not because he lost his looks.
The annual hit to the family’s finances has certain households dreading the start of each new school year.
Tormented grade schooler didn’t have to look far for proof that someday things could be better.
New generation shows new tastes in subtly personalizing school uniforms, according to survey.
Seriously, kids these days, right?
Infographic argues that today’s youth really isn’t so different from the pre-smartphone generation.
Internet users offer counterpoints that suggest disgruntled high school student may, in fact, not know everything.
Organizations don’t want bare-all periodicals to have to hide under obscuring plastic covers.
Japan’s public transportation network gets high marks for its punctuality and cleanliness. Not every ride on the rails is a pleasant one, though, because some lowlifes called chikan use the crowded conditions on commuter trains as cover to grope unsuspecting women.
Now, one high schooler and her mother have had enough, so they’ve started a crowdfunding campaign to design and distribute what ae essentially “Don’t touch!” signs for women to wear while taking the train.
Japan places a tremendous importance on education. Many would even argue that studiousness is part of Japan’s national character, and diligent students are seen as source of pride and an object of respect in Japanese society.
Nevertheless, a lecturer at one of Japan’s renowned universities is calling out the lazy Japanese youths he says he encounters in his classes, while praising his hard-working Chinese and Southeast Asian pupils.
While Japan is famous for its animation, food, pop-culture, it’s also infamous for its extremely high suicide rates. Many Japanese students and salarymen succumb to the pressures of school and work by taking their own lives. There is little knowledge about what factors increase the risk of suicide, but recent research has found that people, namely adolescents, born between January 1 and April 1, are 30 percent more likely to commit suicide.
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