Also known as a "departure tax", this tax was introduced in 2019. It is automatically included in travel fares and applies to ...

As winter tightens its grip on Japan, a rapidly intensifying low-pressure system is causing significant snowfall and strong winds across the nation. This dramatic weather event is expected to affect ...

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been ...

The Japan Times is excited to announce the second Boarding & International School Day, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. Boarding and international schools in Japan have been carving out new educational ...

But he might still be behind bars if not for Hiroaki Murayama, the judge who in 2014 dared do something extremely rare in Japan's often intractable legal system: he ordered a retrial. But mostly ...

TOKYO -- Some parents in Japan are choosing to send their children to alternative "free schools" that incorporate advanced educational methods such as those from the U.S. and Australia, without ...

Japan has expanded artificial intelligence (AI) teaching in high school education as educators feel an urgency to prepare the next generation for its vast potential ― both positive and negative.

TOKYO -- International schools in Tokyo that follow an Indian approach are drawing more Japanese students, whose families are attracted by a diverse curricula and relatively affordable tuition ...

Unlike in most nations, where janitors or custodians clean, Japanese students personally clean their classrooms, corridors, ...