A Japanese morning show recently did a report on how some kids are doing their homework while playing clips of YouTubers studying. The show featured a clip by Hajime Shacho, one of Japan’s most famous ...

Regarding Minoru Matsutani's Jan. 10 article "Student count, knowledge sliding": I teach university-level English conversation for first-year students and have become increasingly frustrated with my ...

Japan has long been notorious for its super-short summer vacations -- it's just five and a half weeks at the public school my seven-year-old daughter started in April. But just in case kids still have ...