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Keio University researchers have solved the problem of a pair of unique triangles with the same perimeter and area. Laymen remain confused!
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Japan
(awesome • education • Keio University • math • mathematics • science)

Japanese schools are losing their pools due to rising maintenance costs and aging facilities

Dale Roll
Sep 12, 2018

Sadly, quintessential anime scenes of rooftop swimming classes may be coming to an end soon.

Japan
(COK • education • pools • schools • society • swimming)

University in Kyoto offers free tuition to anyone over 100 years of age, over half off if over 50

Master Blaster
Sep 10, 2018

Hanazono University hopes you’re never too old to get a bachelor’s in clinical psychology.

Japan
(aging population • education • Hanazono University • Kyoto • scholarship • tuition)

Japanese government announces stricter requirements for foreigner student visas

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

New rules aims to close loophole that lets language school students spend as much of the year working full-time as attending class.

Japan
(COK • education • foreigners in Japan • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • Living in Japan • schools • visas)

Awesome Japanese elementary school teacher rewards kids who use independent learning on his tests

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2018

Learned everything covered in class? You get 100 percent. Learned more than what was covered in class? Then you get a bonus.

Japan
(cool • education • Japanese language • kanji • kids • linguistic • Teachers)

8-year-old discovers untimely deaths of 15 percent of Kyoto’s cicada population

Master Blaster
Aug 22, 2018

Wunderkind’s analytical prowess comparable to people three times his age.

Japan
(children • cicada • education • Kameoka • kumazemi • Kyoto • nature • science)

Most female doctors in poll can understand Tokyo medical school reducing female applicant scores

Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2018

Majority say they can see some sort of logic behind university systematically reducing women’s entrance exam scores by up to 20 percent.

Japan
(COK • doctors • education • entrance exams • health • scandal • schools • society • Tokyo Medical University • universities)

Tokyo Medical University accused of dropping women’s entrance exam scores 10-20 percent each year

Casey Baseel
Aug 2, 2018

Source says score-rigging was born out of concern that many “female doctors quit their jobs after having children.”

Japan
(education • entrance exams • health • scandal • schools • society • Tokyo Medical University • universities)

Flexible teachers DO exist in Japan: First-grader gets full credit for “wrong” math test answers

Casey Baseel
Jul 10, 2018

There are no wrong answers, as long as you’ve got the right question.

Japan
(awesome • cool • education • education in Japan • kids • math • moving • schools • Teachers • touching • wrong answers)

Student penalized for writing the number “4” the “wrong” way on worksheet

Master Blaster
Jul 10, 2018

And in the process learns a lot about life.

Japan
(4 • education • handwriting • math • penmanship • school)

Tokyo women’s university will accept transgender students who identify as female, a Japan first

Casey Baseel
Jul 2, 2018

School asserts that it will accept female-identifying students even if they are listed as male on their legal family registry.

Japan
(education • LGBT • schools • society • transgender • universities • women's universities)

Tough-as-nails bullied Japanese schoolgirl stays home from school, but not because she was sad

Casey Baseel
Jun 29, 2018

After standing up for classmate and becoming bully’s target herself, elementary schooler decided to send a message that took years to be heard.