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Japanese teacher gives secret love letter to junior high schoolgirl, gets his heart broken

Casey Baseel
Jun 1, 2018
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30-something educator should really be old enough to know his love confession was immature and inappropriate.

Japan
(crime • education • schoolgirls • schools • Teachers)

Japanese school’s ethics text encourages kids to “work without reward,” gets slammed online

Casey Baseel
May 29, 2018

Exasperated mom says cute animal characters are showing young students exactly what not to do in life.

Japan
(education • funny • Japanese language • kids • linguists • Parenting • parents • schools • society • working in Japan)

Supposedly simple math homework for Japanese elementary kid stumps gamer dad, with good reason

Casey Baseel
May 18, 2018

”If you spent four hours and 40 minutes playing video games, how much time did you waste?” has no easy answer.

Japan
(COK • education • funny • math • video games • weird)

Japanese Twitter user embarrassed to learn why American friend is studying Japanese, not Chinese

Casey Baseel
May 5, 2018

Reason goes beyond just “Because I like Japan.”

Japan
(education • funny • language • learning japanese • linguistics • society)

Almost half of Japanese grade-school girls say they’ve never heard of “programming” in survey

Casey Baseel
Apr 28, 2018

Troubling statistic is coupled with an additional one-in-four saying they’ve heard the word, but don’t know what it means.

Japan
(education • kids • science • society • survey • technology)

Under 35 percent of middle school English teachers in Japan meet government proficiency benchmark

Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2018

Numbers for high school teachers aren’t much rosier in recent study by education ministry.

Japan
(education • Eiken • English teachers • learning English • society)

Japanese advertising agency breaks tradition by recruiting people who got held back in school

Koh Ruide
Apr 10, 2018

When a company ensures that everyone deserves a second chance, it’s a company worth working for.

Japan
(business • COK • cool • economy • education • job hunting • moving • society • touching • working in Japan)

Japanese teacher has student make written apology for farting in class, displays it in classroom

Casey Baseel
Mar 26, 2018

Attempt at discipline feels especially misguided when you learn the type of school he worked at.

Japan
(education • farting • Farts • schools • Teachers • weird)

If you want your kids to go to elite universities, give them Legos, Japanese study says

Dale Roll
Mar 17, 2018

According to a study done by Lego Japan, the majority of surveyed graduates from elite universities played with Legos when they were children.

Japan
(child development • education • Keio University • kids • LEGO • Parenting • survey • Tokyo University • toys • Waseda University)

Japanese teen finds awesome surprise hidden inside good-luck pencil his cram school gave him

Casey Baseel
Mar 15, 2018

Just below the surface, a mighty anime ally was waiting.

Japan
(anime • cram schools • Dragon Ball • education • funny • weird)

Japanese government tells teachers not to be so strict, at least about some kanji radicals

Richard Simmonds
Mar 15, 2018

Students rejoice and adults gripe as the government Agency for Cultural Affairs declares some writing “rules” undecided.

Japan
(caligrpahy • education • Japanese language • kanji • learning japanese • linguistics • Osamu Hayashi)

Japanese high school teachers forcibly cut off hair that was “too long” from 44 students

Scott Wilson
Feb 10, 2018

Because nothing promotes a healthy learning environment like traumatizing students with scissors in front of their peers.

Japan
(COK • dress code • education • hair • high school)

Japanese public school to allow male students to wear skirts, chest ribbons as part of uniform

Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2018

Brand-new middle school to let students of any gender wear whatever uniform components they feel comfortable in out of consideration to LGBT youths.

Japan
(education • LGBT • School Uniforms • schools • society • uniforms • youth)

Anime isn’t like reality: High school days edition

Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2018

As new freshmen get ready to start high school in Japan, a reminder that a lot of what they’ve seen in anime isn’t how things are really going to be.