Ever since 1954, kyushoku (school lunch) has been an official part of the Japanese school curriculum. Over the years, the ...

Twelve-year-old Japanese table tennis prodigy Mima Ito has set her sights on challenging China's hegemony at the next Olympics after once again wowing audiences in Taiwan.

TOKYO — A 10-year-old student at a Japanese school in China died Thursday after he was stabbed on the way to school the day before, Japanese officials said as they demanded that Beijing do more ...

A 10-year-old Japanese student has died one day after he was stabbed near his school in southern China. The boy, who was enrolled at the Shenzhen Japanese School, succumbed to his injuries early ...

All Japanese children go to school on their own. My son attended a private school 90 minutes from our home. At age 6, he took two trains and a bus, transferring at the world’s biggest rail station.

My 5-year-old's elite Japanese "cram school": Kindergarten exam prep is a mother's test, too “What happens from here depends on how much effort the mother puts in,” the teacher tells me ...

A 44-year-old man was in custody, the police said, after the child was attacked Wednesday. Other Japanese schools in China urged caution. By Vivian Wang and Kiuko Notoya Vivian Wang reported from ...

Japanese student Ren Sasaki leaned over his Spanish textbook in class at Ball High School. The 15-year-old visiting student from Niigata, Japan, quietly stared at the board and back at his book.

Japanese high schools are pretty famous for bukatsu (school clubs). There were the typical after-school activities I was used to in the US, like soccer teams and theater groups.

Japanese schools serving whale. September 5, 2010 — 3 ... But whale meat has recently made a reappearance on the school lunch table as the country gradually increased its catch of the ocean ...