Grape held its essay contest grape Award 2020 this year from May to August. Contestants could write about one of two themes; heart-stirring or heart-stirring…

COVID-19, like the unruly troublemaker that haunts every classroom, has thrown education into disarray in 2020. While schools are furtively unshuttering their doors, many still…

Arielle Busetto, JAPAN Forward It was the end of a blissfully-long Golden Week holiday in May, but one young man was already thinking of back-to-school…

by Taichi Hamakawa Leave it to a robot to teach English classes! The use of AI (artificial intelligence) robots as assistant teachers for English classes…

Japan’s streets are famously litter-free. Even in an urban area like Tokyo, you can see a level of cleanliness completely unexpected of one of the…

The behavior of Japanese middle and high school teachers has come under fire in recent years, especially in terms of what many see as excessive…

Maids are a staple of Japanese otaku subculture, with maid cafes, where maids serve food and drink to guests while treating them like kings, being…

In 2016, Japanese newspaper Mainichi News, reported the results of a poll conducted among fourth grade boys at an elementary school in Osaka that showed…

In Japan, many look forward to the months of March and April when cherry blossoms begin to bloom, temperatures begin to rise, and the much-anticipated…

For many high school students in Japan, acceptance into a prestigious college or university is often considered the key path toward a successful and stable…

“If you don’t like it, just quit. Studying is a luxury.” Those were the words that celebrity educator and television personality Osamu Hayashi chose to…

A tweet was posted by a Japanese mother (@mizukireina0217 – which has now been set to private) recently – it shows how her son’s (who…