Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, I attended a public elementary school in a Tokyo suburb. As an American, it was one of the ...

A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both domestic and overseas audiences. “The Making of a Japanese,” directed by Ema ...

When you think about it, it’s kind of strange how nap time is common at preschools, but then immediately disappears from kids’ curriculums once they reach elementary school. So when you hear that an ...

Elementary students in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, have prepared paintings for a float that will parade through the ...

Elementary school teachers watch out. Japan’s trying to make you obsolete! In lieu of a real flesh and blood person, one primary class in Tokyo is now getting a robot teacher named Saya. Saya has 18 ...

A school classroom is seen in this unrelated photo. (Getty Images) TOKYO -- Some 64% of public elementary school teachers in Japan say there is a teaching staff shortage, according to survey results ...

The education company Benesse conducted a survey on attitudes to summer vacation among third- to sixth-graders taking the company’s correspondence course for elementary school students. A total of ...