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Middle school teacher moonlighting as host bar host arrested in Nagoya

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 25, 2023
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Woman he illegally invited to come to his bar wasn’t who she initially seemed to be either.

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• (COK • crime • education • host bars • hostess bars • schools • Teachers • weird)

Sega celebrates graduation season with chalkboard art of iconic video game characters

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 20, 2023

A touching video clip culminates with some famous well-wishers sending a special message to this year’s graduating class.

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• Japan
• (art • chalk • education • graduation • moving • Persona • Puyo Puyo • Ryu ga Gotoku • Sega • Sonic • touching • video • video games • Yakuza: Like a Dragon)

Cloth randoseru Japanese backpacks are here to lighten load on parents’ wallets and kids’ backs

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2023

Nitori asks whether Japanese elementary school kids’ backpacks really need to be so heavy.

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• Japan
• (backpacks • bags • education • fashion • Nitori • randoseu • schools)

Students hospitalized after eating teacher’s homemade yogurt in Nagoya

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2023

Science lesson leads to lots of vomiting by students and school staff.

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• (COK • crazy • education • food • gross • schools • science • Teachers • weird • yogurt)

Japan’s randoseru school backpacks keep getting more expensive, so now parents can rent them

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 1, 2023

Lower cost isn’t the only benefit of Japan’s first randoseru subscription service, company says.

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• Japan
• (backpacks • COK • education • fashion • kids • Parenting • parents • randoseru • schools)

Critically acclaimed A-bomb manga Barefoot Gen excerpts removed from Hiroshima school curriculum

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 20, 2023

Elementary school students’ Peace Education lessons have included excerpts from manga by atomic bombing survivor since 2013.

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• Japan
• (anime • atomic bomb • atomic bombing • Barefoot Gen • education • Hiroshima • history • manga • schools • World War II)

Student in Japan misses week of class after school won’t let him wear sweatshirt on snowy day

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2023

Student suffers fever after being told to take off extra layer on coldest day of the year.
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• (COK • dress code • education • school rules • School Uniforms • schools • society • uniforms • youth)

Manga artist wants Japanese teachers to feel, for two seconds, how dumb their girls’ dress code is

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 2, 2023

Masayuki Ishikawa is fed up with a rule that keeps schoolgirls cold all winter long.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • dress code • education • manga • Masayuki Ishikawa • Moyashimon • Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture • school rules • School Uniforms • schools • society • uniforms • youth)

The anime girl English teacher textbook character that stole Japan’s heart has gotten a promotion

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 28, 2023

Ellen-sensei is in charge of more than just the English class now.

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• Japan
• (anime • education • Ellen Baker • Ellen-sensei • manga • New Horizons • teaching • Teaching English in Japan • Textbooks)

Japanese high school adds culottes to uniforms to better accommodate gender diversity

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 15, 2023

Changes also coming to blazer buttons at Hyogo school.

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• (COK • education • gender • School Uniforms • schools • society • uniforms)

Japan does “Scared Straight” quite differently with stunt performers and bicycles 【Videos】

• Master Blaster
  Dec 5, 2022

Kids are still in for a memorable lesson though.

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• (bicycle safety • bicycles • cars • education • scared straight • schools • stunt work • traffic safety)

Junior high in Yamaguchi in turmoil after student’s tablet records teachers’ room conversation

• Master Blaster
  Nov 19, 2022

Tech tattled on touchy teacher talk.

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• Japan
• (education • GIGA School • Iwakuni • recording • school • tablets • Yamaguchi)

Japanese prime minster wants to increase the number of foreigners studying in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 30, 2022

Calls on Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to go beyond even already successful plan.

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• Japan
• (COK • education • foreigners in Japan • society • study abroad • studying in Japan)

Petition started to stop forcing students to cheer for their high school baseball teams

• Master Blaster
  Jul 18, 2022

Root, root, root for the home team…or else.

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• (baseball • education • high school baseball • Japan Youth Conference • Japanese High School Baseball Championship • petitions • school • sports)

Japanese junior high school girl removed for class from three days for grooming her eyebrows

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 18, 2022

School rule prompts exasperated reaction from city councilwoman.

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• (COK • crazy • education • eyebrow • school rules • schools • weird)

Best field trip ever? Japanese schoolkids get to control the full-scale moving Gundam’s hand

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 25, 2022

Is it too late for us to reenroll in elementary school?

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• (awesome • cool • education • Gundam • Gundam Factory Yokohama • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • schools • Yokohama • Yokohama Gundam)

Demand for Poop Money Drill textbooks backed up, orders suspended until system cleared out

• Master Blaster
  Jun 22, 2022

Everyone wants a piece of Poop Money.

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• Japan
• (business • economics • education • Financial Services Agency • poop • Poop Kanji Drill • Textbooks • unko • unko kanji drill)

Japanese schools banning nicknames, mandating use of -san divides opinions

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 1, 2022

Proper manners, or forcing kids to be too polite?

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• Japan
• (COK • education • Japanese language • kids • linguistics • san • schools • society • yobisute)

Japanese gyaru-turned-mom is more concerned with making her son a gentleman than a scholar

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 26, 2022

Teen shares three rules his mom raised him with, and “Go study!” wasn’t one of them.

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• (COK • education • etiquette • manners • moving • Parenting • parents • relationships • society • touching)

All Tokyo public high schools abolish rules forcing students to dye non-black hair, underwear color regs

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2022

Popular boys’ hairstyle also removed from banned list.

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• Japan
• (COK • dress codes • education • hair • hair color • school rules • society • students • Tokyo • youth)

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