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Should DJs be the next big thing in Japanese preschools? This principal seems to think so

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 2, 2024
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Traditional education is getting a remix, and preschoolers are ready to rave.

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• (childcare • COK • DJ • education • kids • kindergarten • music • preschool • society)

Wearable blankets blessed by 1,100-year old Shinto shrine on sale in Japan, surprisingly affordable

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2024

Blessed Wearable Blankets all receive prayers that wearers will pass their entrance exams.

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• Japan
• (blanket • cool • cozy • culture • education • entrance exams • fashion • robe • roomwear • shinto • shrines • warm • wearable blanket • weird)

Kyoto losing its luster as a school trip destination as tourist crowds continue to swell

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 19, 2024

Report says schools are looking at alternatives to the traditional top school trip destination.

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• Japan
• (COK • education • Kyoto • overtourism • school trips • schools • society • tourism • travel)

Iisjhaisha? Japan’s biggest English test sends out a baffling message

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 3, 2024

Be honest, TOEIC. Have you been drinking?

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • education • english language • funny • linguistics • Teaching English in Japan • TOEIC • weird)

Public high school in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture will no longer take student absences into account for entrance applications

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 26, 2024

Board of Education doesn’t want students to be penalized for times when missing school is necessary.

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• (COK • education • entrance exams • Gifu • health • high school • schools • society • youth)

This six-year-old Japanese girl is school’s one and only first-grader as lack-of-kids shutdown ends

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2024

School is back in session in this Ehime mountain town, where the student body has dramatically expanded to a very small size.

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• (cute • education • elementary schools • kids • moving • schools • touching • video)

Historical figures get manga makeovers from artists of Spy x Family, My Hero Academia and more

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 25, 2024

History of the World manga series features design of Napolean and Leonardo da Vinci by creators of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Promised Neverland.

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• (anime • cool • education • Golden Kamuy • history • manga • My Hero Academia • Promised Neverland • Shueisha)

Anime girl English teacher Ellen-sensei becomes VTuber/VVTUber and NFT

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 25, 2024

New Horizon star appears in “private English lesson” videos.

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• (education • Ellen Baker • Ellen-sen • linguistics • New Horizon • Teaching English in Japan • Tokyo Shoseki • virtual YouTubers • VTubers)

Upskirt photos lead Japanese high school to redesign cheerleader uniforms

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2024

Ahead of Japan’s national baseball tournament, one school’s strategy sessions includes a plan to prevent peeping photography.

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• Japan
• (baseball • baseball tournaments • cheerleaders • crime • education • Koshien • schools • sports • youth)

Japanese teacher beats up student for making fun of his body by calling him anime character name

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 1, 2024

Board of Education hands down punishments to teachers fighting, dating their teenage students.

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• (COK • crazy • crime • education • schools • Teachers • weird)

Japanese university globalizes with fall start date, governor wants English as official language

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 15, 2024

Says Japan will “continue to decline” without greater globalization.

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• (education • foreigners in Japan • internationalization • linguistics • Osaka • schools • society)

Anime girl English teacher Ellen-sensei to star in written-in-Japanese light novel series

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 9, 2024

Ellen Baker expands her (New) horizons.

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• (COK • education • Ellen Baker • Ellen-sensei • light novels • New Horizon • schools • teaching English • Teaching English in Japan • Textbooks)

Japanese rail company lets teens ride for free on super stressful entrance exam days

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 29, 2024

Test takers given free pass and good luck charm.

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• Japan
• (education • entrance exams • high schools • moving • schools • touching • trains • youth)

Tokyo makes high school free for all families, even the rich ones

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

Even public high schools charge tuition in Japan, but that’s going to be ending soon in the nation’s largest city.

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• (COK • education • high school • schools • society • students • Tokyo)

Japanese educators want to allow students to use robot substitutes to attend school

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2023

Kumamoto City Board of Education thinks robots can help ease kids with anxiety issues back into social interaction.

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• (education • robots • schools • society • students • technology • youth)

Reading Barefoot Gen, manga about the Hiroshima atomic bombing, for the first time as an adult

• SoraNews24
  Aug 10, 2023

Our Nagasaki-born reporter, the grandchild of A-bomb victims, gives her thoughts on the series.

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• (A-bomb • anime • atomic bomb • Barbenheimer • Barefoot Gen • COK • education • Hiroshima • manga • Nagasaki • SNJO • World War II)

Over half of Japanese students in nationwide test score zero percent in English speaking section

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 2, 2023

But that number might not tell the whole story of why so many were at a loss for words.

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• (COK • education • English • English in Japan • learning English • society • students • teaching English • youth)

Eiko Digital Creative High School opens in two cities where students can study e-sports and more

• Krista Rogers
  May 2, 2023

A new flexible learning-based high school program allows students to pursue their passions in preparation for careers in the gaming industry.

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• Japan
• (COK • e-sports • education • Eiko Digital Creative High School • esports • Ibaraki • pro gaming • Saitama • schools • video games)

When bullying happens in Japan, should parents go to the police? We ask an educator

• SoraNews24
  Apr 26, 2023

As our reporter’s daughter enters elementary school, he talks with an education veteran about how to deal with bullying.

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• Japan
• (bullies • bullying • education • P.K. Sanjun • Parenting • parents • police • schools • SNJO • society)

Japan’s first genderless, two-piece school swimsuits are now available for the public to purchase

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 25, 2023

Unisex swimsuits that were piloted last year are making such a splash that they’re now available for anyone to buy.

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• (bathing suit • COK • design • education • fashion • genderless • P.E. class • schools • society • swimming • swimsuit • unisex)

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