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Japanese children make up over 50% of students at Indian int'l school in Tokyo. Here's why
The majority of students at an Indian international school in Tokyo are Japanese, and behind the school's popularity are its ...
Foreign tourists get taught the Japanese high school experience
By Tom Bateman and Rocky Swift KIMITSU, Japan (Reuters) -With his black uniform jacket slung rakishly over his shoulders and ...
Car ramming in Japan injures 7 schoolchildren and suspect is arrested on the scene
Police in Japan say a man was arrested on suspicion of driving his car into seven schoolchildren who were walking home ...
'I don't want to go': How should parents handle school refusal after holidays in Japan?
What should parents do if their child suddenly says they don't want to go to school -- a trend sometimes seen after Japan's Golden Week and other holiday periods when the daily grind awaits.Kizuki ...
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The growing pull of international schools for Japanese families
The Aoba-Japan International School in Tokyo's Nerima Ward is seeing a quiet shift. Its students, aged 3 to 15, come from a range of cultural backgrounds, but these days about half of them have ...
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The origins of baseball in Japan
In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of ...
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Man arrested in Japan after suspected car attack on children: Reports
TOKYO: A man was arrested in the Japanese city of Osaka on Thursday (May 1) after allegedly ploughing his car into seven ...
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Man ploughs car into seven schoolchildren in Japan, says he wanted to kill someone
Tokyo: A man was arrested in the Japanese city of Osaka after allegedly ploughing his car deliberately into seven ...
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Man arrested in Japan after car ploughed into children
NHK disclosed that the man confessed to police, stating, “I was fed up with everything, so I rammed the car into them ...