SAGA--A decades-long white-only underwear restriction enforced for students at some schools in Saga Prefecture, southern Japan, is finally being axed on grounds the dress code infringes on their ...

More than 150 high schools in two prefectures adjacent to Tokyo decided to close Jan. 24 following death threats against students and teachers across Japan. In Saitama Prefecture, 140 ...

TOKYO -- A study group headed by Mari Miura, a professor at Sophia University's Faculty of Law in Tokyo, aiming to achieve gender equality in Japan ... prefecture, or from elementary to high ...

The arrest of three nursery school teachers in Japan on suspicion of assaulting ... The women worked at a nursery school in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where between June and August they ...

(Mainichi/Tomohisa Yazu) OITA -- A high school in southwest Japan's Oita Prefecture gave extra points in its 2023 recommendation-based entrance exam to prospective students with achievements in ...

TAKAMATSU -- "Children's cafeterias" that offer free or low-cost meals to kids now number over 10,000 across Japan ... junior high schools (approximately 9,200). Tokushima Prefecture, which ...